Shareaza

There's a sudden more-than-fivefold increase in the rate at which I receive spam results for a particular set of queries. I haven't changed anything at my end. This developed over a period of at most a few hours. What gives?

Banning them doesn't work properly, either. Besides the hanging. I got nine spam results from a video search that formerly generated no spam results. I selected them all and selected ban user and only six of them disappeared -- when the inevitable hang was over and I checked on it again there were three spam results showing instead of the correct number of zero. I selected them, hit ban, and only two of them disappeared. It's now hung after I banned, for the THIRD FRICKING TIME, the remaining spam.

Whatever change led to this sudden increase in spam must be undone, or else the goddamn hang has to be fixed, ASAP, or I'll spend all my time waiting for Shareaza to recover from these infernal hangs and never getting anything useful done. (Did I mention the hangs make everything ELSE on the machine slow and wonky in responding to user-input?)

Preferably, fix both.

OK, this is frigging ridiculous. When it recovered from that next hang, the spam I'd banned wasn't gone and in fact had had tribbles -- there were now TWO of them.

What the HELL is wrong with Shareaza tonight? Why this step-function change in its behavior, WITHOUT I might add any update/change performed at my end?? I can't make any progress in ridding my result pane of spams. As a result I guess I won't be getting any sleep tonight, since I'll never finish my current task and thus be able to move on to the next one.

Somebody do something dammit. P2P becomes useless if it gets flooded with pollution and filtering it becomes impractical or impossible.

when you choose "ban user" from the context menu it only bans the IP address that is reported to have the file.This method is ineffective when the spammer is not supplying a legitimate IP address. It may be more effective to ban the hash or a part of the filename.

See Also: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/shareaza/index.php?title=SecurityFilter

Unfortunately, there's no apparent way to right click and ban the hash, and the filename frequently contains nothing that is "spam-specific" (e.g. search band album song mp3 and you'll get a lot of spams with the name 04 band song album.mp3 and similarly).

I don't know what you mean by "not supplying a legitimate IP address". The spammer MUST supply their own IP address or it will be impossible for anyone to actually download their spam and hear/view whatever advertisement they're spamming.

This is ridiculous. I'm completely unable to get anything useful done because Shareaza now hogs all the CPU, all the time, banning spammers.

I don't know what you broke last night that caused this, but it must be fixed immediately, or else a new version made available promptly that provides a way to right click a file and ban it by hash. Until that is done, Shareaza has just been made pretty much unusable by whatever changed last night.

+1000 Ban by hash is stupid.
Ban by text string is CRIME.
String filtering must be done in search filter, not security filter(=ip filter).
IP filters are 99% effective for eDonkey and G2.