One Year Later...

It has been over one year since the attacks on the WinMX network started. And look where we are... the exact same place that we were a year ago. Isn't that just pathetic?

Let's first take a moment to thank GhostShip for all his hard... ohhh wait..

Patch? What patch?

Over the course of the last twelve months WinMX World has promised a fix for these issues in the form of a patch, but what exactly happened to this so called quick fix patch? Perhaps GhostShip pissed off yet another "talented" developer with his dictator like attitude and lack of intelligence in how to actually code a working program?

Well folks, I'm sad to say that GhostShip confirmed on the WinMX World forum himself that they have abandoned the patch method of fixing this minor issue with the network. It seems Richy's version of the patch was not good enough for GhostShip to slap his name on and call it his own, so he chose to let us suffer even longer in this mess.

The Replacement Client (And Why It Already Sucks):

Instead of a patch, WinMX World now promises to release a replacement client. When and if this may happen is unknown, but Tiny4Eva/Ryan promised months ago that it would be released in a "few weeks". However, here we are, months later and they have nothing to show for it. The fact is people, this replacement client is not going to actually fix anything. To fix the fake search results, it simply filters search results on the client side. This may look like a "fix", but your search requests are still going to be turned into "c:", and you will receive maybe 1/10th of the amount of search results as you did before the attacks started. For a chat room list fix, they will probably host their own incomplete and outdated list of chat rooms to load into the client remotely.

So much for actually fixing the problem right?

We all see what GhostShip has done for us...

 NOTHING at all.

Who is really behind these attacks?

Has anyone stopped to realize that the only group of people that benefit from these attacks is WinMX World themselves? Think about it for a minute, KM and Splintered have not been seen for months, and yet the attacks continue? If the attacks are active, people have a reason to visit the waste land known as WinMX World, and they have a reason to look to them for help and advice. The fact is, the patch we use now has not been updated since 2008. FOUR long years we have gone without even a little update. Updates such as local peer discovery that would eliminate the need for peer caches (and remove their monopoly of the network), and updates such as adding a local search filter that would actually 'fix' the search hijacking problem.

The actual reason for the patch never being updated is the fact that they rely on a foreign coder. And because GhostShip can't actually code, and all the decent coders in the community got sick of him, he had no one to turn to.

So, think to yourselves... if WinMXWorld is the sole beneficiary to these attacks... then...

Please GhostShip, do what we all want: