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eMule 47c. TK4 Mod 2.0a
Thanks for taking the time to read this. :o)
Please forgive (m)any typos & grammatical errors.
The TK4 Mod is essentially a set of features I want in my own eMule.
Main Features:
Header View+ Allows Viewing of the Header of a downloading or completed file and
attempts identification. 1.5e bug fix 1.5f
Statistics Functionality Enhancements Additional display options and
functionality 1.5b
Permanent search filters Permanent search filters option 1.4g
IRC Colour and text formatting Adopted in Official eMule from version 47b
IP Filter update Updates you IPFilter using it's own thread, Monthly Auto update
option New Ver 2.0a
Slot Focus Basic Slot Focus. Concentrates bandwidth on the slot(s) that can best
use it 1.4c
Download improvements Prevent slower client's locking out faster clients +
Netfinity's Dynamic Block Requests 1.5b
Upload improvements Added no sleep for uploadthrottler thread, Code by lupzz
1.4g
Virus scan AntiVir 7 Premium support added 1.5d
Forceshare *Re-evaluated and redesigned version 1.3a
Credit Systems + Credit systems and Anti-leech, Eastshare system updated from
latest Eastshare 1.4g
Hidden Hides/unhides eMule via user defined hot keys
Simple Compressibility Evaluation Saves wasting CPU cycles. Bug fixes! 1.5b
Important note
Filename Disparity Check (FDC) Indicates when a file has a very different name.
*Improved* 1.5a.
IP2Country Shows country flags from IP for clients and servers,(code from
Eastshare/Morph/eXtreme) 1.4b
Minor Features:
Enhanced Client Recognition Recognize and displays more clients. Coded by
Famerlor from Spike2 Mod.
Redesigned Client Details dialog *updated 1.4a* protocol extension(s) display
added.
Client mod version display
Faster re-ask for MLDonkey clients Idea Spike2, WiZaRd, Eng123 (suggested by
spiralvoice - mlDonkey-DevTeam). New Ver 2.0a
Don't remove static servers option option 1.4g bug fixed 1.5f
Don't log filtered messages option 1.5e
Display files never seen complete as red in downloads list 1.4c
Highlight Search entries with mismatched extensions
Stats Colour(color) reset button
Incidentals
TK4 Changelog
Virus scan:
There is a whole load of malicious code out there, viruses, worms and trojans.
I, during the course of implementing this mod, have seen trojans that were
detected by some scanners but not all, even though all of the scanners had their
latest signatures and were reputable. The threat is real. One scanner even with
resident protection may not provide adequate protection. My mod is NOT indented
as a solution to this. It is merely a method of insuring the *minimum* level of
virus checking is automatically carried out on every file you download. My
suggestion is use one virus scanner to automatically scan files as they complete
and another, your primary anti-virus program, to manually scan files before you
run them or to protect your system via auto protect/resident protection. No
matter how many scanners you use there is always the chance that you will be the
first person to download a new virus/worm/trojan that no one has a signature for
yet. Being cautious in what you download and execute on your system is a key
element in protecting your system!
Multiple virus scanners.
Having good anti-virus protect need not cost you anything. Below are three
really good free,(for personal use); scanners. The first two of which have
command line scanning capabilities. AntiVir is particularly suited to use with
eMule TK4 as its command line scanner is feature packed and pauses after a scan
so you can see what it has detected. It is also easy to install without its
auto-protection enabled, making it a good choice as a second scanner. Don't make
the mistake of discounting Antivir just because it's free!
AntiVir(r) PersonalEdition Classic
http://www.free-av.com/
BitDefender Free Edition v7
http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Download/downloadFile/56/EN/
Free avast! 4 Home Edition
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
With virus scan enable, on most supported Anti-virus products you can choose
from:
Report only or Prompt
Disinfect or Delete
Delete
As the default action your virus scanner will take upon detecting a threat.
All downloaded files will be scanned on completion and if a threat is found it
will be dealt with accordingly. You can also manually invoke a scan from the
context menu's of your downloads and share files lists.
The TK4 Mod currently has built in support for the following virus scanners
installed in their default locations.
AntiVir
AVG6
AVG7
Avast! home
Avast! pro
BitDefender
Eset NOD32
eTrust EZ
F-Prot (windows version)
Kaspersky personal / personal pro
Norman
Norton
McAfee - (Untested McAffee does not install with other AV products!)
Sophos
Zone Alarm
And of course you can configure any anti-virus scanner with command line support
via the 'Other' option. Examples:
F-Prot install in C:\F-Prot
Scanner & Path: C:\F-Prot\fpcmd.exe
Pre-File switches:
Post-File switches: -archive=10 -packed -disinf -auto
Giving:
C:\F-Prot\fpcmd.exe <file> -archive=10 -packed -disinf -auto
AntiVir install in C:\AntiVir\
Scanner & Path: C:\AntiVir\AVNT.EXE
Pre-File switches: -allfiles -z -e -noboot
Post-File switches:
Giving:
C:\AntiVir\AVNT.EXE -allfiles -z -e -noboot <file>
Summary:
Path\Virusscanner <Pre-file switches option> <file> <Post-file switches option>
Note: Most command line virus scanners will list their options with the
switch(es) /? or -? or /help or -help
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Forceshare:(*re-evaluated and redesigned: version 1.3a)
Forceshare is available as two additional upload priority settings for *completed
files. Any file that is Forceshared will be shared before all other
non-forceshared files in slots available to forceshare. The only exception will
be files requested by a friend with a friend slot. Forceshared files will start
uploading immediately even if non-forceshared files are uploading and 'transfer
full chunks' is enabled. Slots available to Forceshare varies depending of
whether there are active downloads. Thus:
If there are no active downloads slots available to forceshare will be "slot
count"/5 * 4 4/5th of slots.
If there are active downloads slots available to forceshare will be 1 + "slot
count"/7 if more than 1 slot is open.
Forceshare has graphical statistics available for it. In the uploads graph you
can see both current and session throughput for Forceshare. Session throughput
is also available in the transfer stats tree under Transfers->Uploads->Session
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Download speed improvements:
eMule requests data in 180Kb blocks, 3 blocks at a time. If 3 blocks have been
requested of a slow source they cannot then be requested of a fast(er) source.
To try to tackle this potential problem the official client uses a fix speed
comparison to detect slow sources and then makes 1 one block request, but it can
only do this if the source is an eMule client! This means for 80% of the network.
This also only occurs in the last 4 parts or files less than 4 parts in size
38Mb. In the TK4 mod the comparison code uses a relative comparison with a fix
speed fall back for single source parts,(improved for 1.5b code here), it works
for the whole file, and the 1 block request is converted in a 3 block request to
give 100% compatibility, (for non-eMule clients only from 1.5a to prevent
additional overhead).At the end of a file if a faster source runs out of blocks
and there are no free blocks it would be dropped leaving a slower source to
complete the file. The to deal with this the TK4 mod employs Netfinity's Dynamic
Block Requests which reduces the size of the requested blocks at the end of a
download to maintain a higher cumulative download speed by retaining more
sources. From 1.5b additional code reduces first requests(idea put forward by
SiRoB in ESD thread) and slow sources (below 400b/s) outside of the DBR
effective range,(above 105Mb). This should increase part completion speed in
some cases.
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Upload improvements:
This code was posted to code snippets by lupzz. I have added only the "No Sleep"
code. This should improve the uploadthrottler's efficiency especially at high
speeds.
See the original thread here
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IRC Colour and text formatting:- Adopted in the Official since 47b
This feature was suggested by Masta2002 who also can be thanked for the idea of
tooltips for the iconized buttons!
I have added colour and text formatting display and send features to the IRC
window. The IRC window will now interpret tags which set foreground and
background colours, bold, underlined and reverse. It will still show links as
links. In addition there are four new buttons to the left of the text input edit
control. From left to right they are:
Colour selection: Click this button and a palette will appear from which you can
choose a colour. When you select a colour the appropriate colour tag will be
added to your text. if you select red the tag “Ctrl C“ 04 (“Ctrl
C“=0x03,0=0x30,4=0x34) will be added to your cursor location, or “Ctrl C 04“
selected text “Ctrl C“ 01 around a selection. If you use the button at your
current cursor position,(not a selection), you can click it again to choose a
background colour.
example: you click the colour button and select red, the colour tags are added,
then you click the colour button again and select another colour, say, blue its
value will be appended to the tag thus “Ctrl C“ 04,02 giving red text on a blue
background
In addition to colour swatches on the colour palette popup there is a “Default“
button, this sets black for foreground colour and if you click it again white
for background colour.
Underline: Click it it sets underline, click it again and it will add the same
tag which has the effect of turning underlining off. On a selection it will
enclose that selection with underline tags.
Bold: The same functionality as underline but sets bold text.
Reset: The reset button adds a tag which resets all preceding formatting. This
button's value is with one tag you can reset text formatting to black on white
normal text. If you just wanted to reset background colour it would be two
button clicks using the colour select button.
The IRC window itself processes and displays the effects of all the above tags
in addition to which it will display the 'reverse' tag which sets white on black
text. It does this whilst retaining full hyperlink functionality.
The channels list is now in blue the channel names are bold and the number of
users are displayed in three different levels of blue.
Tagged in the source code [IRC+]
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Statistics Functionality Enhancements:
Most of these features were suggested by Masta2002 who also can be thanked for
testing and feedback on pre-release code! On the standard eMule if you double
click a statistics scope you would invoke the statistics options page. In the
TK4 Mod the double clicked scope will resize to full height all horizontal
splitter bars will be hidden double click again and the layout will be restored
to its original positions.
Right click on any 'scope and a new context menu will appear, using this you can
hide/restore the statistics tree view. You can hide the 'scopes view, which can
be restored from a new option in the statistics tree context menu! You have the
options to set any of the 'scopes to full height, or to reset the spacing of all
'scopes. Finally you have the option of invoking the statistics options page,
which now has an additional option checkbox: Main/Current stats plots solid:
which will display current stats and connection graphs in solid colour rather
than a line.
Tagged in the source code [SFE]
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Credit Systems +:
There is a new credit dialog in the options page to allow you to select between
four credit systems. Using a credit system rewards good clients and protects you
from leecher clients. I have implemented three additional credit systems for you
to choose from. Lovelace and Eastshare being two popular systems and my own
which unlike the other three does not punish clients that take without giving if
they are downloading *completed* files and hence are unlikely to have anything
to give. However if a client is downloading a file you are trying to download
those who take without giving will be punished. Those who give in either case
will always be rewarded. See the accompanying TK4_Creditsystem.htm file for more
details.
Anti-Leecher/Anti-BadMod
I have incorporated Wizard's excellent Anti-NickThief and Anti-Mod thief
code/Anti-Leech class, as well as implementing GhostMod detection and protocol
extension display code.
Nick Thief - A client with Nick Thief will send you back your own nickname
rather than that of its user.
Mod Thief - A client with Mod Thief will sent you back your client's Mod name.
(only working properly from 1.5f onward!)
Why are they so bad? Because it shows the client is lying about what it is and
who is using it, it is probably a bad client, probably a leecher,(one that takes
from you but does not give). Wizard's code detects nick thieves and many mod
thieves and bans them.
Ghost Mods are eMule clients that don't send a Mod-ID but do send protocol
extensions not supported by the standard eMule. They may be leechers, but there
again they may just be someone's private mod, hence the removal of Ghost bad -
Anti-Ghost mod. They could be a valuable source or a leech, but either way we
should be able to see them for what they are, so TK4 mod will detect them and
show them as -> No ModID <- also as it's just as easy for a leecher to send some
good mod's ModID, the TK4 mod will store and display unsupported protocol
extensions from any client in the form [tag count decimal] tag value hex.tag
value hex eg: [1].5a From 1.4a TK4 Mod always bans Mod thieves that send
non-standard tags.
Some features can be individually disabled from Options -> Credit Systems +
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Simple Compressibility Evaluation:
With the current,(46c) standard eMule all data is compressed prior to being
uploaded unless it comes from certain archives .rar .zip etc. If the data fails
to compress it is discarded, wasting the time spent attempting compression. This
is compounded by the fact that eMule uses zlib's maximum compression setting,
the slowest and most CPU intensive setting. So files that are not in the limited
don't compress list and are uncompressible waste CPU cycles and slow your
system. Therefore the TK4 Mod tests all completed files to evaluate their
compressibility. It also uses two compression levels 1 the fastest and 9 the
slowest in addition to no compression. It also has a new compressibility column
in shared files list, so you can see each file's setting.
Evaluation.
When a file completes, 3 180Kb blocks [thanks SF],(eMule's block size) are
tested from the ¼ ½ ¾ points in the file. If the sum of the compressed size of
these blocks equals or exceeds the uncompressed size then 10 more 180Kb blocks
are tested from the middle half of the file. If the sum of all of these blocks
meets or exceeds the uncompressed size then compression is turned off for that
file. If the original test or the second test results in a reduction of less
than 3% fast compression is used. Otherwise normal full compression is used. For
incomplete files the original list is used with the addition of 7z,gz and lzh.
The list is also moved to the partfile constructor where it sets a flag so it is
evaluated once, saving CPU cycles.
Note: From version 1.3e If the SCE code is unable to evaluate a file due to file
read errors etc, on three separate occasions it's compressibility will be set as
per partfiles to prevent continuous rehashing of a problem file on startup,(this
feature fixed and as well as other bugs in 1.5b).
Important note: As evaluation occurs on completion, after hashing, on first run
this code will rehash and evaluate all completed files. This will reset stats
for these files.
Tagged in the source code [SCE]
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TK4 eXtras: (Options->TK4 eXtras)
Hidden:
When you click the "Enable 'Hidden' HotKeys" check box, the keys represented by
the four buttons and drop list will become a HotKey sequence that when pressed
will hide and unhide the eMule window, hiding eMule from the casual observer. If
eMule is minimized to the systray it will disappear from there and reappear
there. If minimule is open it will disappear and be restored. Default keys are
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Y]. Be sure to check any sequence is not already assigned to
something before you use it, such as [windows] + [E] for explorer. Test the key
sequence before you assign it.
A word of warning: Please do not think this feature makes it safe to run eMule
on systems you do not have the right to run eMule on! If you disregard this
warning and run eMule at work say, you may find yourself unemployed really fast!
eMule can easily be detected by its network activity or remote auditing software
to name but two, you have been warned!
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Filename Disparity Check (FDC):
This feature is implemented until the official client implements a fix. It is
designed to help prevent the downloading of undesired content. When you search
for something, the filenames returned are only the names that match your search.
So if you search for a file named 'Ghost' and you click on 'Ghost trial
version.zip' and start downloading it, this file may have other names such as
'unwanted_video.mpg' but with the standard client you won't know unless you
check in file details->filename. Filename Disparity Check compares filenames and
if the difference between them is excessive a red question mark will be
displayed next to the filename for the duration of the session. This feature can
be turned off in Options->Extended->Disable filename disparity check. You can
also get to a file's filenames quickly from the new context menu->filename. If
FDC has been triggered, the alert can be reset using the 'Reset FDC' button
located on in the file details->filename window. If you find FDC is too
sensitive or not sensitive enough for your needs, you can adjust FDC sensitivity
in Options->TK4 eXtras. If you still get too many false positives you can enable
"Require 2 bad names before alert" which as it says will not display an alert
until 2 bad file names have been see. From version 1.5 FDC will support Unicode
and attempt to work with other character sets: Arabic ,Chinese, CJK Unified
Ideographs ,Cyrillic, Greek , Hebrew ,Indic
(Devanagari(Hindi),Bengali,Gujarati,Gurmukhi), Japanese and Thai. In addition
some accented Latin characters are converted to their none accented counterparts
so an omitted accent won't cause a false disparity. Web links are removed from
the filename a client sends before comparison. Small one word filenames shorter
than 'ours' will not be compared, to prevent false disparity from run-on
filenames. Finally, the sensitivity range has been extended slightly in the Low
end and other small tweaks added.
Tagged in the source code [FDC]
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Header View+:
As the name suggests this function allows you to view the header,(the beginning
of a file where important identifying data is often stored), of a file you are
downloading or have downloaded. It also tries to identify common file types:
EXE, RAR - detect password, ZIP - detect password, ACE - detect password, MP3,
JPG, JP2, .GZ, OGG, WMV/WMA - Warn!
PNG, CAB (MS) - ID, CUE, CAB (IS) - ID, DOC, TIF, .7Z, RTF, PDF, AVI, WAV, .RM,
MPG, MOV, MP4, GIF, BMP, MID, SIT,
LZH, VOB, CHM, confirmation only on DMG, TGA,REG
So if you are downloading a .rar archive and you look at the header details and
see you are really downloading an .avi you know the file is a fake. The code
will try to warn of password protection in some archive types, but it's not
guaranteed.
Tagged in the source code [HV]
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Slot Focus:
Slot Focus in the TK4 mod is the basic slot focus, which is achieved by not
running the share bandwidth evenly part of the upload bandwidth throttler code.
Added to this in the TK4 mod, the bandwidth is offer to the upload slots in an
alternating top to bottom, bottom to top manner in the hope of ensuring faster
slots get their chance at using more of the bandwidth. So as you can easily see
when Slot Focus is enabled, the upload list items will turn green when Slot
Focus is enabled. Slot Focus can be enabled in Options->TK4 eXtras-> via a check
box.
Tagged in the source code [SF]
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IP Filter update:
In the IP Filter dialog there is an additional button "Download and load a new
IPFilter.dat". This button will be greyed out until you enter your update source
address in Options->TK4 eXtras->IP Filter Update Source. Once you enter a valid
source address of the form http:\\www.webaddress\path\ipfilter.dat and click
apply, the update button in the IP Filter dialog will become available. When you
click this button you will be prompted to confirm your intention to update you
IP Filter. Once you click 'yes' on this confirmation dialog, both it and the IP
Filter dialog will close. The IP Filter dialog will be unavailable for the
duration of the update and server listc ctrol functions will be locked out. The
update runs in its own thread. When it has downloaded and if necessary unpacked
the new IPFilter.dat file eMule will stop accept new connections,(isfiltered()
will always return true), while the old IP Filter list is deleted and the new
list is loaded from the new IPFilter.dat file. *If the new list loads zero
addresses, the old list will be restored. With this done all eMule functions
will return to normal, connections will be *filtered by the new list, the IP
Filters dialog will open again if desired and the update thread will end.
As suggested above the update system processes .zip files containing
IPFilter.dat and IPFilter.dat.gz files.
Note From version 2.0a there is a option enabled by default of automatically
updating the IP Filter list once per month, So if you are busy and forget your
Mule won't! Any more frequent an update could result in an abuse of the filter
providers bandwidth.
Note .gz files such as nipfilter.dat will be extracted to ipfilter.dat from 1.4g
Tagged in the source code [IPUP]
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Permanent search filters:
In the search window under the search entry edit field is a new check box,
"Preset Filters" it is checked by default and will be greyed out if no filters
are set. You can set preset filter terms,(such as NOT wmv); in Options->TK4
eXtras->Search Filter Presets you can also hide the filter expression entry
field, by clicking the "Hide Filters" checkbox. Once you have set your filter
terms, they will be add to all searches when the "Preset Filters" checkbox is
checked. However the preset filters will not show on the search tab or be
recorded in you search history!
Tagged in the source code [PSF]
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IP to Country:
IP to Country displays the country flags for clients and servers so you can see
who is from where! You will need to copy countryflag.dll countryflag32.dll and
ip-to-country.csv to your eMule config folder. IP to Country feature, originally
code by AndCycle of EastShare ? part of the code is from Morph Mod - SirRob and
as I merged the code from eXtreme some fixes by XMan1. I don't like doing 'cut &
paste' coding but this feature is to pretty to be without! The only code I've
written for this was to put the country flag in TK4 client details and a small
fix in ServerListCtrl.cpp. All you need to do is keep the ip-to-country.csv file
up-to-date for most accurate results. Updates are here from the
http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/ site.
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Don't remove static servers option:
This option in Options->Servers will prevent static servers being removed if
they are "dead".
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Don't log filtered messages
An option in Options->Extended->Disable Filtered Message logging; use verbose
log instead if enabled
When selected filtered messages will not be logged in the log and will be logged
in the verbose log when verbose logging is enabled.
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Enhanced Client Recognition:
Identifies and displays the names and versions of additional clients. Recognizes
every Shareaza and MLdonkey. Recognize eMule+, Hydranode and TrustyFiles.
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Faster re-ask for MLDonkey clients:
Recipricol Faster re-ask for queueless MLDonkey clients. Increases your chance
of getting something from them.
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Client mod version display:
The Mod version of any of known clients is now displayed in the 'Known clients'
and 'Downloading' windows. It is also an added field in the 'Client details'
dialog.
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Highlight Search entries with mismatched extensions:
When searching if filenames are returned with mismatched 3 char extensions e.g.:
eicar.com & eicar.txt (being the same file). This file Will be highlighted as
this may sometimes be a clue to an invalid file.
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Stats Colour(color) reset button:
In options->statistics you can alter all of the graphs colours, but if you mess
up how do you get it all back to default? In the TK4 Mod version you just click
the 'reset' button then click apply, two clicks so you can accidentally click
'reset' and wipe out all of your work. I have also grouped the three 'color'
tools together.
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Redesigned Client Details dialog:
The Client Details dialog now has a clearer,(IMHO) layout and has five graphic
icons on the left hand side, the user icon will change to friend icon if the
client is a friend, below is the country flag if IP2Country is in use. The
network icon will change to show five different connection possibilities, of
these the yellow arrows of course indicate a client with LowID,(replacing the
HighID/LowID of the standard dialog). The Transfer icon has four states
indicating uploading/downloading and different colours indicating obfuscated
connection . The info icon is just static.
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Display files never seen complete as red in downloads list:
Displays files never seen complete in red text in downloads list, so you can see
files that may never complete.
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Incidentals:
Session time shown in Shared files statistics.
Update Server list from clients default changed to false. Due to the rise in
fake servers.
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Code changes and improvements.
Code changes not related to features, eMule bug fixes or changes for increased
efficiency etc are listed in a brief technical manner in the accompanying
TK4_Mod_Changelog.htm.
Thank you for reading...
The TK4 Mod is brought to you by bluesonicboy of the unstoppable TK4.
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