Ares Build 2923 Released

[rainbowdemon]

Ares is a peer to peer file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. You may now easily publish your files through the Ares Network.

As a member of the Ares network, you can also search and download just about any digital media file.

With Ares you can also join or host chat rooms and meet new friends.

Softgap is an international software company engaged in the business of providing cutting edge peer to peer filesharing software

What's New?

This new build follows the release of the previous build which came with tiger tree hashing. This new build of Ares comes with magnet links support!

Now with one simple click you will be able to download any file you want knowing its the real deal! You can also automatically include yourself as a source (option) and guarantee an automatic source for the file to spread it faster.

This release also shows you how many sources the user downloading from you has for the file in the dynamic hints box.

Get It Here

[HolyMoly]

Teensy problem. I downloaded the latest Ares software and installed it. At first, it attempted to share everything on my computer. I finally found the button to manually configure it ... by the time it was up to about 5,000 files. But, the real rub I didn't find out about until later.

When I logged off of Ares, I got two alerts from ZoneAlarm ... the first one asked if I wanted to give Explorer.exe access to the net (usually, not a good sign). And the 2nd thing it asked me was if I wanted to give a file named NHUpdater.exe access to the net. According to Bazooka spyware/adware detector, NHUpdater is classified as "adware" (CLICK HERE).

So, I followed their directions for uninstalling it from the Control Panel and rebooted. The first thing that happened is a DOS window opened and closed in a fraction of a second (another not so good sign). So, confident that the Control Panel uninstall did NOT totally uninstall it, I followed my standard operation procedure in such cases -- running, one after the other, AdAware, Spybot, and my anti-virus software. Spybot and my AV caught nothing ... but AdAware caught 7 occurrences of NavExcel and 2 occurrences of MainPean Dialer in my registry (both considered "malware" by AdAware).

I let AdAware delete the registry entries, re-booted (this time without the DOS window opening/closing), ran AdAware again (to make certain something wasn't re-auto-loaded) ... then ran Ares again. It seemed to work fine without the adware/malware. But just to make sure running Ares didn't "do" something, I ran AdAware one more time - and it found nothing.

So Ares looks like a good P2P alternative ... but its sheets aren't entirely clean, at least not without intervention.

[Yoda]

yo rainbowdemon, how old of a release is this? Where did you get the source.. Im curious.

[HolyMoly]

I must say that my first impression of Ares was not a good one. Allowing the user to manually choose which files/directories to share should be a "default" upon installation, not an after-the-fact "option." And installing malware when their own site says "no spyware" rubs me the wrong way. NavExcel is considered a browser "hijacker" utility.