[alf]

I really can't believe that people does trust some exe placed in a server "https://a833.c1s1.net" just by someone they don't know at all.

[slowsilver]

Well, SP2 hasn't made the slightest change in my average UL:DL without the patch. Admittedly I haven't felt any urge to see what the logs think about the situation.

[leexgx]

not that it bothers me like coes my emule runs on an win2k pc my pc does run on XP but i have to test it over long time (like an week or so to see the difrence)

but i recommend just set the per 5 secs to 10 connectons as that should lower the likey hood of getting timed out half connections (basicly can you wate 5 mins longer to just ask sources as it will not inprove your download or slow it down setting this any way)

[ImTheMan]

wdekler, on Aug 18 2004, 09:34 AM, said:

MS makes an update to improve security and people start patching their systems to undo it... just to reduce their p2p startup time... 

Security? You don't think virusmakers will add code to change these settings as well?

[alf]

ImTheMan, on Sep 1 2004, 06:39 PM, said:

wdekler, on Aug 18 2004, 09:34 AM, said:

MS makes an update to improve security and people start patching their systems to undo it... just to reduce their p2p startup time... 

Security? You don't think virusmakers will add code to change these settings as well?

And don't you think that due to that possibility MS will try to disallow such changes to the system files?
(and then this patch will be useless and we're back to the starting point: if there's a problem in the app fix the app instead of patching the OS)

[LloydSev]

That's pretty funny... the "moment" I clicked save on my tcpip.sys file, my downloads took off.. too funny.

[Jernej]

Hey people, check this out:

http://forum.emule-p...showtopic=57525

Pretty good, huh ?

[PropellerBrain]

Important patch???

Quote

Windows may be easy to use, but it is extremely complicated and difficult to administer, especially for security, with a tremendous number of hidden functions and many complex configuration interfaces. It should be left to the professional admin to enable services and understand their dependencies, not left to the home user to figure out which ones are risky, and which ones can safely be disabled.

The whole story.

WinXP SP2 = security placebo?

[Jernej]

PropellerBrain, on Sep 3 2004, 03:41 PM, said:

Important patch??? 

Quote

Windows may be easy to use, but it is extremely complicated and difficult to administer, especially for security, with a tremendous number of hidden functions and many complex configuration interfaces. It should be left to the professional admin to enable services and understand their dependencies, not left to the home user to figure out which ones are risky, and which ones can safely be disabled.

The whole story.

WinXP SP2 = security placebo?

[sandersiep]

THANKS THANKS THANKS!!!!!!!!

The patch mentioned here is working perfect for me.
After the installation of SP2 I didn`t have any downloads only uploads.
After running the patch EMule download is back to 30kb/s!!

The 50 connections per second wasn`t enough! I have set it to 1000000 and that is working fine.

[leonardoj1]

leexgx, on Aug 29 2004, 06:21 PM, said:

this is going to invite peeps who are going to post an link that is going to do something bad

I have applied the patch WINDOWS SP2 TCP/IP correction but the e-mule still doesnt connect, it says the servers are off

WHAT ELSE CAN I DO PEOPLE ? PLEASE HELP

[leexgx]

don't install any patch that removes the limit it for Half connections only onces connected is all fine

even if you hit the 10 connection limit it just que them up

hmm bumping an stuped post

@leonardoj1
please start an new post in the support forum

with more info then (my emule does not work) that tells us nothing

ISP, your ISP speed, router, firewall info like that

[highjump]

Hi folks - I installed XP XP2 several weeks ago and then made sure the ports were opened in the firewall. When I upgraded emule to 44d port test came back ok and I was connecting with High ID. Emule ran just fine for many weeks, and then all of a sudden I started getting the 4226 errors. Now both downloads and uploads are almost non-existent and when I run port test, shows TCP failure. However, I'm still getting High ID when I connect. The only other change I made, was to install Google toolbar. I've read all of the previous posts, but it all still seems kinda sketchy....any suggestions? Thanks a ton, highjump

[dr_tamer_m]

LloydSev, on Sep 1 2004, 08:07 PM, said:

That's pretty funny...  the "moment" I clicked save on my tcpip.sys file,  my downloads took off..  too funny.

hi Friends,
really alot of data & help i find here...it's even more that i can understand

can anyone tell me step by step what i have to do.

i'm usuing Xp SP2 for 2 monthes & there wasn't any problem..but only 2 weeks ago i got maximum upload & my downloads doesn't exceeds 0.5 Kb/s & does stay longes than a minute or less..although i didn't change any of my preferences. i'm using emule v0.44d

i installed a patcher here but it doesn't work ..can anyone tell me the steps to fix this problem but in easy way..thanks alot

[jelsoft]

I just installed SP2 today and I ran eMule and I don't seen much of a change in connection status.

I started up eMule and the upload speed started out slow. I had set my upload to 13 KB/sec but I was getting about 9 KB/sec. Eventually about 5 minutes later I had reached the 13 KB/sec upload speed. I also ran BT and the connection seem to work well as well.

Despite the fears from P2P users, SP2 does work with P2P applications.

[Osiriz]

Hi there!
I have the exact same problem described by dr_tamer_m and highjump, i suppose.
I have SP2 since october, and the last version of emule. Everything worked fine (highid, excellent downlods and uploads) until 4 days ago. Now, when I restart emule, i got Hihgid, but my sources are almost all gone. Just 10 or so in files that had 600! If i try to reconnect to server, i get lowid. Ports are open in firewall, everything was supposed to work! I even tried to disable the firewall, but the problem continues to happen. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this or what might cause this?
Thanks for your help

[kokleong]

This is exactly what happened to me. I'm not getting any resources and downloads are almost non-existent. Uploads are near (capped) limits though. Queue size is also very small.

Browsing through my sources, seems I'm not getting anything from Kad.

Only thing I recall doing is a few M$ security updates prior to this problem.

[Sakazulu]

Maybe new version fix that "problem".

In all these posts I didn't saw reasont to pick up patch.

[Osiriz]

Hi again!
This message is quite important, I suppose...specially for you kokleong, because you said you have the same problem HAD.
The problem was due to something in my ISP. I called them and asked for technical support. They said they would call me soon (I'm still waiting... ), so I tested my pc with a friend's ISP (I have a laptop, so it's quite easy...). It worked just fine! I was ready to call again to my ISP to complain and change if necessary when the problem was solved! I still don't know what was the problem in the first place, but I think it has something to do with secure connections between the user and the ISP. Go to your DOS prompt and type ipconfig. In my case it appeared something very strange about tunneling. I googled it and this tunnels are used in some kind of secure protocols. Nevertheless, after my call, they changed it.
This is my 'theory' and I don't know if I'm right. I'm just happy it works again. I really hope you also solve your problem.

[::(-_-):: Speedy B]

This all makes one thing pretty obvious: There is not *one* thing that helps for all configurations.

While in my case, having SP2 wacked onto my machine, I had some "WARNINGS" in my event manager. Having used the patch (increase to 50 connection from www.lvllord.de), it's all pretty sweet now.

However, I still can't make out if SP2 is really making anything more secure. There are plenty of varying opinions out there. Which is, I guess, again down to the various configurations. My laptop got murdered by SP2, while my eMule station runs safe and sound with this update.

To conclude, I guess, you should only carry out those changes to your system, which you are able to manage and able to cope with the effects and the results. For example, don't blindly install anything, including SP2, when you are not able to revert to the original machine state. I.e. Backing up your data and having all the installation files and all other essential software at hand, before messing around big time.