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How To Avoid Fake Files

#41 User is offline   niRRity 

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Posted 23 June 2006 - 12:44 PM

I added a section to the guide, see "Reporting Fake Files". I also changed the recommended codec pack from Mega Codec Pack to XP Codec Pack since I discovered that Mega Codec Pack contains illegal components.

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#42 User is offline   molona 

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 03:13 PM

What happens when everything seems to be all right (names, comments, etc) and it is just some kind of odd behaviour in eMule.

I have done everything you said (except servers, which I will) but I have just tried to download a mp3 file. When it reached 100% then it would not go to complete status, and then appear in the incoming folder, but start downloading over again (till it reaches 100% and then again...)

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#43 User is offline   Vano 

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Posted 02 July 2006 - 04:51 PM

I guess this should've been a new topic :huh:

Does anything appear in the log/verbose log about the file? Maybe it has permanent corruption problems.
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Posted 02 July 2006 - 10:07 PM

As Vano said it's probably a corruption problem...
Try to cleanup your server list, this might reduce corruptions.

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 07:52 AM

It certainly did, thank you. It seems that I had quite a few servers that were not good and, each time I got connected, sent me new fake servers. As a result all the files that I was downloading were fake or corrupted.

So I followed the instructions given at ElChele's server topic and cleaned up all my server list.

It did the trick. Now it works. Thank you so much for your help.
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 03:18 PM

You are welcomed.
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Posted 28 July 2006 - 05:29 PM

excelent post :thumbup:
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Posted 30 July 2006 - 08:00 AM

did the web services to make sure some file wasn't fake. The file was not found in the database. Does taht mean it's fake?
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Posted 30 July 2006 - 08:08 AM

Liz81, on Jul 30 2006, 01:00 AM, said:

Does taht mean it's fake?
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No, it means that file hasn't been verified either way, ergo the verdict is inconclusive.
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Post icon  Posted 30 July 2006 - 08:08 AM

donkeyfakes.net stores hashes of fake files, so if the file isn't in the database then it's probably not a fake.
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Posted 30 July 2006 - 08:13 AM

Vano, on Jul 30 2006, 01:08 AM, said:

so if the file isn't in the database then it's probably not a fake.
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The onus should be on probably. I've come across plenty of fake files that haven't been verified in the database yet. Such is the downside of having only one or a few people to check the veracity of the reports: response time slows considerably.
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Posted 05 August 2006 - 07:17 AM

I generally recommend not relaying on a database but on common sense. It usually works better.
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Posted 07 August 2006 - 01:32 PM

If there's a thank button, I'll press it... thanks...
But, will they confirm a fake file?

Just my 2 cents:

1. compare the file size with the known expected file sizes when applied. (lol, need some researches...)
2. check out the version coz it's often better to know the basic necessary infos to scan out those unmatched.

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Posted 07 August 2006 - 05:26 PM

scaredohno, on Aug 7 2006, 06:32 AM, said:

But, will they confirm a fake file?
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AFAIK, all of the fakes databases are verified by hand, so if you can trust the database admins, you can trust the veracity of the reports.
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Posted 20 September 2006 - 03:52 PM

Always check the length and bitrate with music and video files when searching
Althought inconsistencies in those fields doesn't neccessarily means the file is a fake, it is highly probable that it isn't what you where looking for. The absense of these fields for mp3's and avi's is a good warning that the file might be fake as other sources where not able to decode this information from the file. However if the number of complete sources is very few it might happen that this information has not been processed yet. It is a guess work but there is usually one file that appears less fake than the others.

length
When you download a you usually have an approximate knowledge about the actual playing time. By looking for this in the search window you can guess that an mp3 that is 15 minutes is probably fake aswell as a featured movie that is 5 minutes long.

bitrate
A mp3 file is normaly 128 kbit/s or greater and a divx (avi) is greater than 1000 kbit/s. If the file is not you can be quite sure it's either fake or of poor quality.
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Posted 20 September 2006 - 04:05 PM

Thanks netfinity, I added your post to the guide as a section.

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 04:23 PM

That is my primary method to identify fakes. It is simple and works most of the time!
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Posted 02 October 2006 - 10:15 AM

Personally whenever I download a large file I always
go to the transferrs tab > right click on it > Click "Details" > and then go to the "name" tab

This way I can see what other people are downloading and what they think its called.
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Posted 04 October 2006 - 07:06 AM

@goonmaster: Your suggestion was already in the guide, please read it before commenting on it further.
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Posted 24 November 2006 - 08:11 AM

View PostniRRity, on Sep 23 2005, 05:13 AM, said:

Setting Up eMule to Avoid Fake Files Spreaders. Fake files are often spreaded by companies that want to hurt your P2P experience (like MPAA etc.) or by users that try to spread viruses etc. The best ways to avoid them is to keep your serverlist clean of fake servers and to keep an updated IP filter. Fake servers are servers that spread fake sources and false search results. To make sure you don't have fake servers in your server list delete all servers in the "Servers" tab. Go to the "Server" section in the options screen and disable the "Update serverlist when connecting to a server" and "Update serverlist when a client connects" options. Set the number of failed retries to 10 and enable the "Auto-update serverlist at start up" option, click the "List..." button and in the text file that opens paste this link: http://ocbmaurice.dy...server-best.met. Save the text file and close it.
Now to setup the IP filter. An IP filter is a tool that blocks communication from a list of IP addresses. eMule has a built in IP filter it just needs the user to supply the list of IP's to block. Go to the "Security" section in the options screen, in the "IP Filter" enable the "Filter servers too" option and paste this link in the "Update from URL" box: http://emulepawcio.s...et/ipfilter.zip
Then click on the "Load" button and let eMule download the updated IP address list. Try to remember to manually update the ipfilter weekly. Now all you have to do is restart eMule.
OK, I've done all this, and upon restart, eMule apparently couldn't find any usable servers with these links because now the entire server tab is blank -- and I can't server search or global-server search for that reason.
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