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Emule

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 4:44 am
by quicksilver
I tested this client out today and it seems to work although it was a bit like its namesake ,Stubborn :D. Its an open sourced program, and you can get it here

http://prdownloads.sf.net/emule/eMule0. ... taller.exe
What is eMule?
At dawn of May 13th 2002 a guy called Merkur was dissatisfied with the original eDonkey2000 client and was convinced he could do better. So he did. He gathered other developers around him, and eMule Project was born. Their aim was to put the client back on track where eDonkey had been famous before, adding tons of new features and a nice GUI.

As of today, eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world. Thanks to it's open source policy many developers are able to contribute to the project, making the network more efficient with each release.

What does eMule mean?
The name "eMule" comes from an animal called "Mule" which is somehow similar to a donkey ;)

How often is eMule updated?
eMule is not updated regularly, but at the moment the frequencies are between 1 and 3 weeks. Don't take this for guaranteed. :)

A list of a few features available.

-Clients use several networks to create one reliable network. (ED2K, Source Exchange, Kad). Kad is now in an open testphase, eMule v0.42 can be enabled to use Kad
-eMule's Queue and Credit system helps to ensure that everyone will get the file he wants by promoting those that upload back to the network.
-eMule is completely free. eMule is also completely free of any Adware, Spyware, and ect. We do this for fun and knowledge, not for money.
-Each file checked for corruptions while downloading to ensure an error free file.
The eMules Intelligent Corruption Control helps to speed up the correction of corrupted parts.
-Auto priorities and Source management allows you to start many downloads without having to monitor them.
-The Preview function allows you to look at your Videos and Archives before they are completed. For video previewing, we recommend the Video Lan Client.
-The eMule features webservices and a webserver that allows you to have quick access to and from the internet.
-You can create categories for your download to organize them.
To find the file you want, eMule offers a wide range of search possibilities which include: Servers (Local, and Global), web based (Jigle, and Filedonkey), and Kad (Still in Alpha).
-eMule also allows you to use very complex Boolean searches that make the searches much more flexible.
-With the messaging and friend system, you can send messages to other Clients and add them as friends. In your friend list, you can always see if a friend is online.
-With the build in IRC client, you can chat with other downloaders and chatters around the globe
This page contains all the accesories , plug-ins and help files you could ever want
http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/ ... m=download

Ok my opinion on it is that you can see that this is a "programmers" program as it has so much information available to the user maybe too much for the average user, and this will mean that it wont get the widespread usage (or tons of files ) of joe public ( you and me :D )
I,m no fool but it took me a while to figure out where to share my files and I think for new users the Que and Credit System in use counts against them and makes them not receive the priority they may wish for (yes thats right a bit slower for new users !)
All in all it worked fine and I did receive files , theres no spyware and I liked the location feature as this gave me the satisfaction of knowing I was sharing with the world :D

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:59 am
by quicksilver
Seems Microsoft has a patch that affects this program so you may wish to obtain this from here, otherwise your downloads will start to crawl.

http://forums.cricketmx.com/download.php?id=532

This will tell you all about it.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10387

The patch was designed to slow down malicous programs like worms but affects ordinary users of P2P. :(

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 11:09 am
by p2p-sharing-rules

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:47 am
by p2p-sharing-rules
* New update eMule v0.47a*

What's new & fixes:
higher filesize limit - increased from 4GB to 256GB
enhanced search capabilities - Detailed explanation about the usage of search expressions in eMule.
improved and fixed proxy support
support for new serverside features and optimizations (e.g. filerating support fpr ed2k servers)
further bugfixing and improvements
For all the details, check out the complete changelog below!

Win9x users only:
The following has to be installed on Win9x/ME only -- it enables the Unicode functionality for eMule on those OSes.
Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems (MSLU) version 1.0.

Unk: Fixed a Kad bug when looking for a Buddy.. (leuk_he)
Fixed a problem with corrupting known2_64.met if "Remember downloaded files" is disabled
Fixed banned client statistics [Xman1]
Fixed cumulative part file data statistics [TimDzang]
Fixed download list transferred data shown in completed column, if transferred column is hidden.
Fixed stalling during part file allocation.
Fixed rejected connections (ip filter) stats.
source: emule-project/news

1.This application installs eMule by a setup routine interactively, containing all languages and help files.

1.Sourcforge download page for the eMule v0.47a-Installer.

2.This archive contains only the files you need to run eMule and needs to be unzipped, with 4 languages only.

2.Sourcforge download page for the eMule Binaries v0.47a.zip.

3.This archive contains only the sourcefile of this release and needs to be unzipped, read the readme.txt for instructions!

3.Sourcforge download page for the eMule Sourcecode v0.47a.zip.

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:19 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
eMule 0.47b

The mainfeatures of this version are
Protocol Obfuscation support
Previewing the contents of archives in the file detail dialog
Some GUI improvements like a on-the-fly search result filter
And as always fixing several bugs and adding other small changes
For all the details, check out the complete changelog below!

As a little bonus to make up for the long waiting time, additional to eMule there is also a release of a shellextension for WindowsXP which allows you to see the content of your unfinished partfiles in the explorer. A short explanation can be found on the end of this post.

Changelog for 0.47b

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- Sep, 7. 2006 -
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Ornis: Added progressbar during archive scanning for live archive preview

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- Sep, 5. 2006 -
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.: eMule will take care that the random choosen ports are not used already
.: Added a fix for a possible problem when search Kad-Buddies [DavidXanatos]
.: Fixed a small bug in a kad response sanitycheck [WiZardofDoS]

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- Sep, 1. 2006 -
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.: Some optimizations for IP-filtering in Kad.
.: Fixed a bug where wrong Kad 1.0 Notes packets were sent.
.: Fixed bug with MiniMule which failed to open when eMule was installed in folders with special characters.

Sourceforge Download mirror links for the Installer v0.47b.

Sourceforge Download mirror links for the Binaries v0.47b.

Sourceforge Download mirror links for the Sourcecode v0.47b.

Also check out this article on p2pnet : eMule protocol obfuscation

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:02 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
eMule v.47c

Changelog for 0.47c

v0.47c Hotfix
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- Sep, 14. 2006 -
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.: Fixed some major bugs in Kad 2.0 source/keyword publishing

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- Sep, 13. 2006 -
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.: Fixed Kad bug with processing Kad1.0-Packets which is believed to be remotely exploitable and therefore a potential risk if Kad is enabled [found by tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]
.: Fixed bug with lost setting for disabled UDP port.
.: Fixed bug in First Runtime Wizard with previously disabled UDP port.
.: Added more sanitizing for Kad packages to ignore all unrequested packets

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- Sep, 11. 2006 -
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.: Fixed some Kad memory leaks in exception handlers [tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]
.: Tweaked reading of "addresses.dat" and "shareddir.dat" files to skip spaces and empty lines.
.: Fixed bug with wrong file type mismatch warning for multiple selected part files.

Sourceforge download mirror links:
Installer v0.47c
Binaries v0.47c
Sourcecode v0.47c

Extras and additional tools:
eMule part file access module v0.1.4 for VideoLAN v0.7.2
MuleMRTG
Link Creator
Media Info
Toolbars

For more info on the above tools check out this link.

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:51 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
If you're using M$ Vista and can't get eMule to work right with Vista checkout this link.
eMule on Windows Vista

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:15 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
New eMule v0.48a

Dear eMule Users,

Time goes by and eMule grows up. Today (the day of this release) our beloved eMule becomes 5 years old - Happy birthday smile.gif To keep it fit and healthy for the coming months and years a new version, eMule 0.48a, has been prepared which is now ready to be released.
The mainfeatures of this version are:

* First step torwards Vista by fixing most glitches and problems Vista had with eMule and by this also support of multi user installations (for all OSs)
* Support for UPnP
* A spam filter for search results
* Several GUI improvments like smiley support for IRC and messages angel_not.gif, nicer file tooltips and so on
* And as always fixing several bugs and adding other small changes

For all the details, check out the complete changelog below!
emule-project.net
download links:
Installer v0.48a
Binaries v0.48a
Sourcecode v0.48a

Re: Emule

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:47 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
eMule 0.49a Release date: May 8 , 2008

The mainfeatures of this version are

* Major Kad protocol improvements, like kad obfuscation, better NAT handling, direct callbacks, flood protections, etc.
* Several changes to the message system to get rid of spammers (by Captchas) and stay in touch with friends with dynamic IPs
* Several GUI improvements like storing searches between eMule sessions, a searchfilter for shared files and easier access to the comment filter
* And as always fixing bugs and adding other small changes

Changelog for 0.49a
.: If extended controls are enabled (and if available) Kad search results show the amount of known unique publishers for a file in parentheses in the availability column (this isn't equal to sources, but it is a bit more trustworthy indicator how common a file is).
.: Updated CxImage lib to the latest version (6.0), fixes some image processing vulnability (low risk for eMule) [reported: Steve Manzuik/Juniper Networks]
.: Fixed Unicode issue in stored and loading searches
.: DirectCallback sources are now properly added to and checked against the deadsource list
You can read the 0.49a beta changes here.
Scroll down to the Changelog for 0.49a.

Download links:
Installer v0.49a
Binaries v0.49a
Sourcecode v0.49a
Extras and additional tools are available on their download page here.
eMule Skins

Re: Emule

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:27 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
eMule 0.49b July, 31. 2008

Dear eMule Users,

Barely two and a half months have passed, and yet another new eMule version is on the horizont. 0.49b continues to complete the agenda of its predecessor in the 0.49 series. This means further optimizations for Kad and more important immunity against recently researched routing attacks, several improvements of the GUI for Vista users, a new UPnP implementation, easier connecting to Kad for new users and fixing of an important bug which slipped into the last version.

As a reminder, the mainfeatures of the 0.49 series are

* Major Kad protocol improvements, like Kad obfuscation, better NAT handling, Direct Callbacks, flood protections, protection against routing attacks, bootstrap nodes.dat, etc.
* Several changes to the message system to get rid of spammers (by Captchas) and stay in touch with friends with dynamic IPs
* Several GUI improvements like storing searches between eMule sessions, a searchfilter for shared files, improved Vista support, etc
* A reworked and improved UPnP implementation
* And as always fixing bugs and adding other small changes

For all the details, check out the complete changelog below!
emule-project.net

Download links:
Installer v0.49b
Binaries v0.49b
Sourcecode v0.49b

Re: Emule

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:04 am
by p2p-sharing-rules
eMule 0.49c

Dear eMule users,

in the 7th year anno eMule we are once again happy to present you a new version: eMule 0.49c. As the name indicates, this version is mostly a maintance version concentrating on fixing all the problems and bugs you reported, implementing requested improvements and of course keeping Kad updated.

Out of those many smaller changes, the most noticeable are:

* Ability to share and unshare single files instead of directories only and also support of Drag&Drop to do so easily
* Support of new security features on Windows Vista (and partially also XP) to further harden eMule against any possible exploits
* Automatic recovery of corrupt part.met files by using the backupfiles
* Kad improvements like automatic search-keyword rearranging (allowing searches like 'an eMule' and also helping to reduce load on busy nodes), avoiding fragmented UDP packets (making it more compatible to zealous firewalls) and other changes
* Improving UPnP by refreshing the mappings as well as adding Webinterface support
* And as always fixing bugs and adding other small changes

For all the details, check out the complete changelog below!
emule-project.net

Download links:
Installer v0.49c
Binaries v0.49c
Sourcecode v0.49c

Re: Emule

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:12 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
eMule 0.50a
Release date: April 7, 2010
It has been a long ride, but now we are finally halfway there :) We are once again happy to present you a new shiny version: eMule 0.50a. Many small but nonetheless important fixes and changes were made, but the main features of this new version are:

* Making eMules file verifying algorithm future proof by combining the ed2k hash with the AICH hash to identify and verify downloaded parts and files. This guarantuees that existing and newly found MD4 weaknesses will not affect eMules ability to deliver uncorrupted files in the future.
* Several GUI improvements, like supporting new taskbar features of Windows7, easier access to download commands by adding a new toolbar, an improved shared files dialog and a brand new Kad graph to look and wonder at
* Better usability in small LANs by adjusting Kad to such an environment and supporting highspeed uploads
* And as always fixing bugs and adding other small changes

For all the details, check out the complete changelog below!

Download links
Emule Installer v0.50a
Emule Binaries v0.50a
Emule Sourcecode v0.50a