Collins’ Onovia

These days the eMule network is under attack by companies that want to ruin it The RIAA, MPAA, and virus spreaders are among the people that want to ruin your P2P experience. Keeping your server list up to date, and free of fake servers is the best method for you to avoid these fake files.

Luckily eMule has the tools built in for you to avoid these rogue servers!

1. Load eMule. Make sure that you are not connected to any servers or the Kad network. Go to the servers screen, click on one, press control+a to select them all. Hit the delete key to remove all of the servers.

2. Click options and go to the server options page. Uncheck the “Update server list when connecting to a server” and “Update server list when a client connects” boxes. Set the number of failed retries to 10 and enable the “Auto-update server list at start up” option, click the “List…” button and in the text file that opens paste this link: http://ocbmaurice.no-ip.org/pl/slist.pl/server.met?download/server-best.met. Save the text file and close it.

3. eMule has a built in IP filter it just needs the user to supply the list of IP’s to block. Go to the “Security” section in the options screen, in the “IP Filter” enable the “Filter servers too” option and paste this link in the “Update from URL” box: http://emulepawcio.sourceforge.net/ipfilter.zip Then click on the “Load” button and let eMule download the updated IP address list. Try to remember to manually update the ipfilter weekly.

4. Restart eMule.

Following those steps you can avoid fake servers and files.