Limewire = Problems (Limewire)

Member Name: xtremedj

Product:	Limewire
Date:	27/02/09 (349 review reads)
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Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Will cause you to get virus,malware,Trojans and other stuff

Well all i got to say for Limewire and people who dear to use it good luck to them.

What a lot of people don't know is when you are downloading stuff from limewire you are also downloading viruses Trojans and other stuff you don't know about.

Have you ever downloaded a mp3 that don't play or it jumps from one part from another or had images that don't work or run a small little command window if your response is yes i have had a few of theses and even scan them and check them but my anti virus don't find anything.

It don't find anything on it as its Hidden in the mp3 or other file formats take a look here
http://forum.limewire.org/showthread.php?t=4220

Take it from someone who knows this as i tend to have to deal with friends systems from having this installed along with Kazaa Frostwire and other p2p applications inc bearshare. People will often ask friends what they use or google p2p programs and not look into what they realy are doing..

If you have any of the programs on your system i would check twice and run a deep scan or full scan on your system and with not jsut one but 3 or 4 different programs to make sure you are virus free..

Here are some free ones to help you out

Remember if you have anti virus program on your system only have one of theses installed as you can get conflicts with other ones if you have more than one anti virus program install..

If you are installing a number of malware and anti spyware programs thses are find as some will cat things that others dont..

Anti virus
http://www.avast.com
http://free.avg.com/

nod32 trial but can still use http://www.eset.com/download/

spyware,malware,trojan removers

spybot search and destroy don't install the tea timer thing on it has been known to cause problem
http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

Malwarebytes currently using and has found a lot more stuff than others have freeware this aswell and can also buy for real time protection
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

they are many others i could psot but the list would be endless they all do the same thing others catch things that some dont.

just be a little careful with a-squared this can cause problems and can tend to cause false positives on your system thing one thing is a virus or Trojan when its not its some program it dont know and you know what it is and you have installed it yourself..

Hope all the above is helpful to those that have any p2p programs installed.

Just make sure you are prepaird tho if you are using p2p programs like theses as you will run into a brick wall of problems as time goes by and if you don't sort them out at the first instants you will will have a lot of problems to fix and have to spend a good few hours on removing stuff .

Summary: Not something i would use or Recommend to use as can cause too many problems

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