Topic: morpheus

[sabu]

i can't seem to connect to morpheus using SME v5.12 as my server
can anyone tell me if they have got it working, what version of e-smith/sme, what version of morpheus and what settings they are using?

i prefer morpheus over kazaa as kazaa has spyware in it

thanks
sabu

[Terry Brummell]

I can connect fine to Morpgeus.  Using the newest version of Morpheus (downloaded Sunday) and SME 5.1.2.  No other special settings on my side.
HTH

Terry

sabu wrote:
>
> i can't seem to connect to morpheus using SME v5.12 as my
> server
> can anyone tell me if they have got it working, what version
> of e-smith/sme, what version of morpheus and what settings
> they are using?
>
> i prefer morpheus over kazaa as kazaa has spyware in it
>
> thanks
> sabu

[Arkman]

Not that I use any of them.

Kazaa is limiting/stopping Morpheus connections to the fasttrack (?) network (the network that both Kazaa and Morpheus run on). There is some weird legal battle going on.Terry Brummell wrote:

[Ille DuPre]

I used to use Morpheus and I know for a fact that it loads spyware.

I use SME v5.
I set Morpheus up on two clients after running adaware on both and deleting anything it found. On one I ran adaware after the morpheus install. It found seven instances of spyware programs..I deleted them. The other I left alone.

After 2 days the Morpheus installation I ran adaware on stopped working. It kept telling me I had to download a new version. The other worked fine.

I would download the "new" version...which was, strangely enough, the same version I already had. It ran fine for 3 days. I then ran adaware on it again...sure enough it had the same spyware from the previous install...I deleted the spyware and sure enough it stopped again after 2 days telling me I could not connect until I download the "new" version.

The one I never ran adaware on never stopped working...same version.

Just make sure you have good anti-virus software and be willing to accept having spyware if you choose to use these free products. Its not Morpheus you have to worry about...its the trojans...etc that can come imbedded in an mp3 or jpeg.

[DJ_Ramjet99]

Just out of curiosity, and may well be a stupid question, why are the ports that these kind of applications run on not blocked by default ? Fine to connect out through the e-smith firewalling if you want, but why are these ports not closed to external connections coming back through?
I would have though that someone connecting to my PC from the outside on any port would have been blocked (unless setup in firewalling specifically) but I am probably missing the point here in the way these apps work. Anyone care to explain ?

[Dan G.]

These apps apparently have a "push" capability, that can allow your running client app to make an outbound connection to upload the files to the requesting party.  The client establishes an outbound connection, and that sets up the channel through which the push can be requested.

[DJ_Ramjet99]

Hmmm, this could be well dodgy couldn't it. But, ah those files......