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A significant number of hosts using optimized windows apps are returning bogus results. We're recommending our users return to using the stock app (until updated, correct versions of these optimized apps are released), because starting
tomorrow these optimized apps will NOT be granting any credit. I've released v11 of the source code, with compilation instructions that'll ensure that an optimized app will be granted credit in the future here. The new released code also has multiple test WUs to check the code against, so hopefully newer optimized versions will not return bogus results; they will also let us
track what applications are and aren't working so we are able to debug our searches and let users know which applications are working.
Unfortunately, the bogus windows apps are so prevalent that it's preventing us from implementing our dynamic WU checking; because the number of bad results is skewing our detection which would result in correct results being labeled as invalid.
We also have no way to update these apps automatically, unlike our own stock app on the server. This is why we've had to take such a drastic measure (not granting credit to any older optimized apps) until this situation is resolved. Again, our
users have until tomorrow to either revert to our stock app or upgrade to an application that uses the new compilation instructions and code, or risk not being granted any credit.

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