hi evry one,

see, i'm a newbie (frenchy, on top of that ).

some one would be kind enough to tell me why my winrar is telling me "no archive found" error message while trying to unzipp ipfilter latest release from this site whereas file properties pop up confirm the file size?

no such problems encountered so far and i'm sure my unzip soft is going well so i think it might turn to be from the file itself. is any one has encountered such a problem with this file before i do?
please help.

ho, and i 'd also like to ask: are all the ipfilter.dat flowing through ed2k and such, entrustable? especially what about those whose name claim to be from BISS?

thank a bunch for further help.

bluetack the best!

Hey,

curious it works fine for me. But your emule should be able to handle the gz itself afaik.

As for the other question:
we, at this point, have not put any of our filters into the ed2k network, nor any of our lists. I am thinking about that, but then there would be "official" ed2k links somewhere on our mainpage or in our forums, where peeps could get the correct hashes. But this is only a thought atm.

questions answered?

HvT

hey,

yes, i guess, question answered somehow. thanks for your diligency.but still, if i understand well, you mean that i don't have to unzip ipfilter.dat.gz for it to work with emule?
i 'm gonna try anyway, we never know.

and, before leaving, this issue regarding over ed2k distributed ipfilter files, it's just that i'm a bit of suspicious when i see "prevent riaa & co from spying your p2p 22_september_2006[www.bluetack.co.uk]" entitled archive, for i can't go through a long comparison process with the former ipfilter and reliability and so( you know what i mean?), cause i wasn't there from the start, you know. i heard about fake ipfilter spreading over the network intented to make peers believe they are secured whereas being peep and all. at the end of the day, there is only one thing you can be sure of: the more you get informed the more paranoid you get

thanks for everything.

i apologize boring you with stupid question but could please tell me what does "afaik" mean?
_didn't find in a english dictionary so...

Hey,

np at all. "afaik" means "as far as I know".

as for emule: put the url to the ipfilter.dat.gz into the update thing under security in emule and hit the update button. It normally should be able to dl the gz, unpack it and use the new ipfilter.dat. Thats at least what I was told. lol

As for the unpacking not working: it should work, I dl the gz's and tested em. They are fine - as they should be, bc I made em.

And now for the things with ipfilter.dat's floating around the emule network:
all sites that offer them in emule say, to only use their official links. I personally would not trust an ipfilter I don't know where it is from, meaning where I did not "click" on an ed2k link to add it to my dl's. As I said earlier: I am thinking about putting em into the ed2k network, but atm we are updating those filters 2-3 times a week, so the links and files would very fast be outdated. Thats one reason I didn't do that before.

Questions answered?

HvT

hey,

yes, thkx u very much.
here is a new question which is some kinf of thread to the ipfilter.dat loading security feature of emule(i hope this is understandable to you ) you've just told me about.

i 've just attempted dwlding ipfilter.dat (the "for paranoid one")last update, from openmedia (which seem to be trustable...)for my mule, using the said feature (i hit the right url in input box and all, everything was done the right way).
but at request process, i got a cookie and script alert from my AV soft. cookie issue don't make me being to much concerned since i can accept ingoing stuff and make a rule for it not to send outgoing stuff. my concern is related to scrip applet. so this is the question:

is script applet( activeX and co.) enable necessary to complete ipfilter dwnld process from emule and should this be entrusted when i'm sure it comes from the server which is sending the requested file?

i'm asking this cause i've blocked the script and cookie from my AV prompt dialog box during the ipfilter dwnld process and this very action seemed to have made it fail. that is why i wanted advise from advanced users before configuring my AV properly.

thanks again for your help

I got a pipfilter.dat.gz that I can't decompress. And found the answer: it's just the dat file with ".gz" added to the file name. It's just the uncompressed dat file.