Re: very weird traffic

[May-Consult <florian.gottschling () may-consult net>]

Hi,

out of curiosity I tried a little search myself:

"eyes wired shut" brought considerable less results, about 690.
after I tried leaving out all music related stuff with the search
terms:
"eyes wired shut" -edgewater -lyric -story +winmx

there are only about 7 results left.
Those are mostly regarding this topic on securityfocus (and the two
crossposts at gmane and neohapsis), but one of them is a posting at
slyck-website, being host to many a discussion regarding p2p-networks:
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4032

It mainly deals with frontcode-related stuff, but since the problem is
noted there, maybe there will be updates which can shed light to this
incident.

Some might suggest its a kind of RIAA activity trying to flood the
network rendering it useless for filesharing, but that is a wild
guess.

Kind regards,
florian gottschling



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> > If I search for "eyes wired shut" I will get up to 15,000 hits
> > for this one title (madonna got 1597 hits this AM: britney spears
> > got 4971: eyes wired shut got 11,458 hits) This file name is the
> > most dramatic but there are similar results with other searches
> > based on what they are reporting in their shared folder. 
> > There are about 30 names but the hash at the end of the name
> > will be different, ie: user123_45678; user234_56897; user489_78546;
> > user789_78956 etc. For example first 5 nicknames generated 100+
> > nicknames with different hashes only and over 1,000 files listed. 
> > Also the reported connection to winmx is different from hash to
> > hash - could be anything from 13.3K to T3. As well as number of
> > open slots will differ from name to name (136 of 136 available etc)



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