Interesting Limewire Test

TheChef

TheChef

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So I did a test on my machine with Limewire. Usually I have nothing of that sort on my machine, all of my music is legit, but I scanned for viruses (and was free of them) and downloaded a couple songs, deleted them, and uninstalled Limewire. I rescanned for viruses and found 423, the majority of which were trojans. Thought that was interesting.:)

TheChef
 
i only got viruses from Limewire while trying to downalod the game Zuma.....never had any other viruese in there...
 
how the hell does that happen lol... i've never had anything like that happen to me... did you disable active scanning or something?
 
I have been using limewire for a very long time, I have download tons of things and never gotten one virus. Maybe some spyware, but no viruses.
 
bigsaucybob said:
I have been using limewire for a very long time, I have download tons of things and never gotten one virus. Maybe some spyware, but no viruses.
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Ditto...For anyone using limewire though I would make the switch to frostwire!

Download Frostwire HERE
 
I used AVG, and disabled AutoProtect or ActiveScan or whatever it is with that (I have 3 different computers with three different Anti-Virus programs). I was seeing waht would happen with no protection...
 
cell4me said:
Ditto...For anyone using limewire though I would make the switch to frostwire!

Download Frostwire HERE
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what exactly is the difference and why is frostwire better? I have limewire pro latest version from torrents with patched accelerator and dl accelerator pro. I can dl a 500mb movie in four or five hours, so what's the insentive to switch?
 
fruscai said:
what exactly is the difference and why is frostwire better? I have limewire pro latest version from torrents with patched accelerator and dl accelerator pro. I can dl a 500mb movie in four or five hours, so what's the insentive to switch?
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Limewire is going to have to embed a code to check for unlicensed files. It was a court judgement filed by the riaa to crack down on illegal file sharing, however Limewire feels this will also effect alot of legal files being shared so in order to keep the P2P community alive it made Limewire open source, what that means is limewire released its source to the general public before the date they have to embed the code as ordered by the court in hopes someone will use that source to keep limewire going!

Well someone did, it's called Frostwire and since nobody owns it the RIAA or the MPIAA cannot take anyone to court to have them code this P2P program to check for unlicensed files.

Basically it is limewire pro with no restrictions they just changed the name. Unless other P2P programs follow in their foot steps you can kiss their programs goodbye!
 
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I used AVG
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eww...
I used to use AVG and was really satisfied that I never had ANY viruses....or so I thought....
I downloaded Avast jsut to test it out and did a virus scan with AVG first, nothing, i was like sweet then a test with Avast...found 11. Avast is still running on my system hehe.
 
lol same thing happened to me but i found out later that it was an .exe file that i accidently downloaded, and it duplicates its self on to your limewire's shared folder. sorta like adware but u don't get ads it just duplicates and duplicates till it can't anymore. it took 2.5gb out of my harddrive till i decided to go in safe mode and delete all of them.BTW i used norton internet security 2006 as the antivirus so maybe you should buy it and scan your computer just incase
 
I'm not a huge Norton fan, I use it on one of them but I think it uses way too many resources, and I've had some problems with the software. I check with a couple other free ones occasionally.
 
It's impossible to get a virus from a music file, lol, unless you downloaded a exe file or any other excutable file, theres noway those came from lime


Edit: or they might be coming from limewire it self, cause now days i bet limewire it bundling junk with their free version....
 
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