Security Filter

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Shareaza's Security Features

Shareaza combines many filtering techniques to ensure that you get the best search results possible. You can add, remove, and edit these filters using shareaza's built-in security management window by pressing [F7] or using the menu item View > Advanced > Security. For help using the security management window see the Security section of the Shareaza Manual.

IP Blocking

If you just want to quickly ban someone then you can right click on the user and select "ban" from the context menu that appears. This will place a temporary ban on that user's IP address and any traffic from that user in the near future will be blocked. Shareaza also allows you to ban a range of addresses by combining the user's IP address with a corresponding netmask. For example if you wanted to block all addresses starting with 123.456.789.* then you would create the IP filter 123.456.789.0 and use the subnet mask 255.255.255.0. For more information on how netmasks work see the Subnets article on Wikipedia

Content Filtering

Shareaza also allows you to block certain search terms from your searches. For example, if you wanted to filter out all search results pertaining to imesh you could add the content filter "imesh" to hide results containing the word imesh. Shareaza also allows the use of regular expressions such as "*", "$", "?", or "[]". See AdvancedFiltering for more expressions and examples

Hash Filtering

many spammers will take one file and change the filename to fit every search query they receive. For these results the most effective method of filtering is to block the file according to it's hash value. Using the format "urn:sha1:FILEHASHFILEHASHFILEHASHFILEHASH" we can create a content filter that will block these results

Information

Security Filters are precompiled databases of users who place fake, virus infected or otherwise low quality files on the network. They ban these users from ever communicating with your client. They also blocks fake and unwanted search results from appearing.

There are lots of different filters available, all of which have their different aims and good/bad points. If you go to the Security Forum you can view them all and choose the ones you want.

Some forum members have created an All-In-One AntiSpam Filter

By default this blocklist filters all ".wm", ".wma", ".wmv", ".mov", ".vbs", ".url", ".htm", and ".html" files as well as bad IP addresses, bad terms(shareazav4, shareazav5), and bad hashes.
You need to be using Shareaza 2.4.0.0 or later in order to take full advantage of this filter so it is highly recommended that you upgrade

All-In-One AntiSpam Filter Installation

1. Download the security filter with Shareaza using File:Magnet-icon-9w-9h.gif this magnet link

2. Hit the [F7] key on your keyboard to open the security window

3. Delete any existing filters

a. Select the first item in the list

b. Scroll the the end of the list using your mouse (to keep the first item selected)

c. Hold down the [Shift] key and select the last item on the list. All items should now be highlighted.

d. Press the [del] key on your keyboard and click "yes" when prompted if you want to remove all selected security rules.

4. Right-click anywhere inside the white area and select "import" from the menu that appears

5. Browse to your Shareaza download folder and select the file you just downloaded.