eMule Automated Message

[Hot Head]

Today for the first time ever I received the following automated message on eMule:

"You have been banned because your client is behaving aggressively"

In the long time I've been using eMule, I have never gotten an automated message. What the heck does this mean?

Also, as far as I can see, I'm still connected and able to download at relatively high speeds.


:devil

[zaphodiv]

The ban threshold can be set by the user in some versions of emule.
Someone may have changed it to be very intolerant.

This messages is triggered by a client requesting a file too often.
Perhaps you restarted your emule client a couple of times and
it asked someone for a file at startup every time.

An unlikly possibility is that
if you upload at a very high rate, somone might have cloned your
userhash to steal your upload credit. If the clone is trying
to download from a client that you are also trying to download
from you may both get banned.

If you only got that message once don't worry about it.

[Hot Head]

I've gotten that message only today, but at several different times.

How do I prevent someone from cloning my id credit?

[DainBramaged]

More than likely the former situation occured rather than the latter(s). As stated, some eMule users set their ban threshold at very intolerant levels, numbering just a few minutes, if not less.

[zaphodiv]

>How do I prevent someone from cloning my id credit?

You can't. It requires an addition to emule to do secure authentication.

Different solutions to userhash cloning has been discuessed in the forums at
[http://www.emule-project.net]www.emule-project.net[/url] for months.
REgistration required. See the threads
"Authentication Protocol Extension Proposal" and "Solution To User Hash Theft ?"

[Hot Head]

Thanks for the information