Shareaza

Lately I've been seeing a lot of spam results from my searches -- all with the search words rearranged and usually with a multiple of 9 sources for some odd reason. To avoid my search results getting cluttered up with these (or even Shareaza stopping searching because it thinks it's found enough) I select these and ban them as they show up. I've noticed two things:

1. The ban user command is slow. When used, Shareaza pauses for a second or two before responding. And it seems to maybe be getting slower.

2. I don't seem to have even put a dent in the number of spam sources so far, and I must have banned a thousand sources by now. Where are the spammers getting such large numbers of internet addresses to spam from? And why are they apparently organized into little mini-networks of nine hosts that either all respond or none respond to a given incoming search? Given patterns like this, isn't there some better, more automated way to block these miscreants?

I use IP blocker. See about in wiki in LinkTank. Also you can add your own list with IP to be blocked. This doesn't slow down Shareaza.

I had this same problem for awhile but, I found that after a few weeks of banning IP's that it now responds very well and like I would expect.
I have no idea why that changed other than the size of my ban list (I have hundreds in my blocked list now. Perhaps even thousands).

As to why there are so many search spammers on-line it's probably a bot net of some sort or some company/organization(RIAA or MPAA etc...) trying to
mess up the network.

I was thinking of someday publishing my list for others to put into their settings and it would be a combination of Cyko's great list and my current one.

The idea is to get enough IP's from a single subnet and just ban whole Class C's eventually. This might seem cruel to the users on that Class C subnet
but, if the ISP isn't noticing what I think would be a HUGE amount of traffic from these hosts than they are either complicit or they are idiots and if we ban them maybe people will move on to a better ISP.

Well, good luck and hope it speeds up again like mine did,
George

Public yor ban lists here Top spamer list.

This seems to be getting worse, not better, and the amount of spam results I'm seeing has decreased, if at all, only slightly.

Shareaza hide some hits from search list and remove hits of the baned host. If you see 10 hits 100 hits may be hidden.