Limewire Virus

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acid martyr Amateur Author Age: 13 Gender: Female Posts: 260	July 31st, 2008 at 02:52am I've had Limewire for probably around a half a year now, with hundreds of songs, but I have gotten no virus or problems from it. Then again.. I have about three different programs that fish out and get rid of cookies, viruses, whatever other kinds of junk computers get. xD I use AVG, Spybot, and... I can't remember the other. But they're all free, so maybe try those?
Patriots and Tyrants Student Shakespeare Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 7021	August 2nd, 2008 at 09:26am I find Frostwire has less viruses. And I'd definitely recommend anti-virus software. There are some very good ones that you can get for free.
Kevin. Amateur Author Age: 18 Gender: Female Posts: 179	August 4th, 2008 at 11:19pm I find the free ones are the better ones. Which makes no sense. In my experience, Norton is just irritable. It doesn't allow you to do anything, and that's a problem if you download stuff a lot or even transfer pics between you and your friends on AIM. And even with restricting you to stuff it still doesn't catch a lot. Spybot catches a tonne of spyware on my comp. I swear it goes into the hundreds every time I scan Which I recommend doing a lot. And AVG just pwns. It catches pretty much everything and is also free. Limewire is just a breeding ground for viruses though. Get it off your computer completely. From the source and everything.
Mellisa;Gir Cliché Catastrophe Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 365	August 5th, 2008 at 02:37am panic at the disco: I use Limewire all the time, and I have a virus scanner, I never once had the virus scanner say i had a virus. I guess I'm lucky? Ditto, I've never gotten a virus from Limewire. You could always try Panda Antivirus, it's amazing.
Mellisa;Gir Cliché Catastrophe Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 365	August 5th, 2008 at 02:37am Double Post.
FoxBoy Writer's Block Age: 16 Gender: Male Posts: 19	August 5th, 2008 at 02:29pm To whoever reccomends Norton as an antivirus, kick yourselves It is bloat-ware, unreliable, slows down computers, has false positives and misses thousands of common viruses. Now, no av is perfect, but I recommend avast! Home edition, i swear by it. With Norton i swore AT it. It is not worth the hassle and the money. but, based on the original virus description, try a little app called Rogue Remover, it may help. It is excellent at removing pretend antiviruses. you can get avast @ www.avast.com you need to go hunting for Rogue Remover. Edit: I'd also recommend A-squared by EMSI. You can get it here www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
Tim Minchin. Amateur Author Age: 15 Gender: Male Posts: 133	August 7th, 2008 at 02:33pm I've got Bullguard Anti-Virus at the moment, and I've been using Limewire ever since we got this computer. I also used Limewire on the other computer (XP) and we used Panda AntiVirus software, no problems with that either. I think it depends on the Software really. You're better off with software other than Norton, because the people who create viruses have kind of found ways to get around it.
i defy you stars. Cliché Catastrophe Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 655	August 8th, 2008 at 11:39pm I am fully aware of the problems Limeware cause. But damn, its soo addictive! Haha, but to be honest, i've never had any trouble.
edgeissxc. Fanfic Fanatic Age: 69 Gender: Female Posts: 2217	August 9th, 2008 at 09:23pm I've never had a problem with limewire, the only thing is that theres this one message that seems to have a coding which means it comes up as whatever you type in. Then you open it and it's all 'my fellow Americans, I must inform you, I did not have sex with blah blah...' But I don't use Limewire. I've never understood what Limewire can be used for other than illegal software and music downloads...
varkatzas. fake the happiness. Age: 27 Gender: Male Posts: 5222	August 9th, 2008 at 10:38pm borndead.: I've never had a problem with limewire, the only thing is that theres this one message that seems to have a coding which means it comes up as whatever you type in. Then you open it and it's all 'my fellow Americans, I must inform you, I did not have sex with blah blah...' But I don't use Limewire. I've never understood what Limewire can be used for other than illegal software and music downloads... That's exactly what Limewire is for.
RENT. Wordsmith Age: 16 Gender: Male Posts: 12015	August 10th, 2008 at 10:09am Limewire also has high rates of Trojans (which can hack into bank account details etc) and other tracking viruses. I completely rid my computor of it.
RENT. Wordsmith Age: 16 Gender: Male Posts: 12015	August 10th, 2008 at 10:09am The Outlaw: I find Frostwire has less viruses. And I'd definitely recommend anti-virus software. There are some very good ones that you can get for free. Thats what I have now. Its a jillion times better.
ChemicallyImbalanced Wordsmith Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 10251	August 10th, 2008 at 01:30pm varkatzas.: borndead.: I've never had a problem with limewire, the only thing is that theres this one message that seems to have a coding which means it comes up as whatever you type in. Then you open it and it's all 'my fellow Americans, I must inform you, I did not have sex with blah blah...' But I don't use Limewire. I've never understood what Limewire can be used for other than illegal software and music downloads... That's exactly what Limewire is for. Limewire is used for sharing files. It's a file sharing program.
varkatzas. fake the happiness. Age: 27 Gender: Male Posts: 5222	August 10th, 2008 at 01:38pm ChemicallyImbalanced: Limewire is used for sharing files. It's a file sharing program. You get it illegally though.
ChemicallyImbalanced Wordsmith Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 10251	August 10th, 2008 at 01:57pm varkatzas.: ChemicallyImbalanced: Limewire is used for sharing files. It's a file sharing program. You get it illegally though. How do you get it illegally?
varkatzas. fake the happiness. Age: 27 Gender: Male Posts: 5222	August 10th, 2008 at 01:59pm ChemicallyImbalanced: How do you get it illegally? Sharing music/programs/etc. without paying for it is considered illegally. And you're not on msn. -whines-
edgeissxc. Fanfic Fanatic Age: 69 Gender: Female Posts: 2217	August 10th, 2008 at 03:03pm ChemicallyImbalanced: varkatzas.: borndead.: I've never had a problem with limewire, the only thing is that theres this one message that seems to have a coding which means it comes up as whatever you type in. Then you open it and it's all 'my fellow Americans, I must inform you, I did not have sex with blah blah...' But I don't use Limewire. I've never understood what Limewire can be used for other than illegal software and music downloads... I get that, but what would you exactly want to share with the rest of the planet. Like personal documents would be sent in an email, not over Limewire. I've never known it to be used for anything other than music and videos... That's exactly what Limewire is for. Limewire is used for sharing files. It's a file sharing program.
edgeissxc. Fanfic Fanatic Age: 69 Gender: Female Posts: 2217	August 10th, 2008 at 03:04pm ChemicallyImbalanced: Limewire is used for sharing files. It's a file sharing program. I get that, I just don't know what you would share on it, other than music and videos. I mean, if you had a personal document, you aren't going to send it through Limewire. So I just don't get what, besides music and videos, is shared on it...
ChemicallyImbalanced Wordsmith Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 10251	August 11th, 2008 at 11:03am borndead.: ChemicallyImbalanced: Limewire is used for sharing files. It's a file sharing program. I get that, I just don't know what you would share on it, other than music and videos. I mean, if you had a personal document, you aren't going to send it through Limewire. So I just don't get what, besides music and videos, is shared on it... That's where Limewire has it's loophole. The actual program itself isn't illegal because it isn't uploading copyrighted files and giving them out for free. It's the people that are using it for illegal procedures that make people think it's illegal. You are allowed to share programs, files, music and videos that you have created yourself, or that you have designed, but if it's copyrighted and you don't have the license to it then it's illegal to a) upload it onto the program and b) download it from the program.
die sektor Cliché Catastrophe Age: 19 Gender: Female Posts: 602	August 12th, 2008 at 12:02pm I have a great solution for those who are having problems with viruses from Limewire - don't use it. Yeah, I'm sure you've all heard that one before. But it's true. If you're worried about getting viruses from it, ask yourself this - what's more important: getting that music track, or your personal documents and information? You also have to think about others who may use the computer you download from.

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