wpcc issues

[silicon_toad2000]

Hi All,

Had an issue through the help room tonight of wpcc acting weird and error/virus messages popping up.

It seems that the domain which emulator coded for his update bar has been used to point to advertising/spam sites.

The easiest fix I found was to edit your hosts file and add

127.0.0.1   www.emuware.org

anyway you can stop your computer trying to communicate with www.emuware.org should work.

[GhostShip]

Thats probably the easiet solution Silicon, I took a peek through the older versions of  WPCC in the Archives and those had a seperated update EXE and a domain that was

http://www.emulator.netsons.org/

Its trivial work to patch it once the programs been unpacked (UPX), but a simple host file fix will do the same job no messing.

Do we have any of the newer WPCC versions as it seems we are short a few ?

[GhostShip]

Silicon pointed out this location to me in response to my question folks.

http://www.crystalsoft.it/en/download/wpcc-winmx-professional-chat-client-12


Obviously this version will for now require the Host file entry mentioned above to prevent unwanted annoyances from whomever holds the update location presently.