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Saxman
Whatnext?
John Corliss
Well, if you mean what happens next after a person uses Limewire, that's
usually a serious malware infection.
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IT Support
>> LimeWire is a P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer
... much of which is infected with every known manner of virus, worm, trojan
etcetera.
Bob Villa
I have used Limewire and Frostwire with Avast P2P Shield with no
infections for over a year. (also running Malwarebytes)
bob_v
Saxman
> Well, if you mean what happens next after a person uses Limewire, that's
> usually a serious malware infection.
Correct.
John Corliss
Two points:
1. It depends on what you're downloading
2. Some rootkits are *extremely* difficult to detect.
dick blisters
"John Corliss" <q34w...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Bob Villa wrote:
>> On Jul 4, 5:13 am, "IT Support" <nos...@email.com> wrote:
>>> "Saxman" wrote:
>>>>> LimeWire is a P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer
>>>>> files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents
>>>>> .....
>>> ... much of which is infected with every known manner of virus, worm,
>>> trojan
>>> etcetera.
>>
>> I have used Limewire and Frostwire with Avast P2P Shield with no
>> infections for over a year. (also running Malwarebytes)
>
> Two points:
>
> 1. It depends on what you're downloading
> 2. Some rootkits are *extremely* difficult to detect.
>
before they are opened. The worst ones to download are exe files.
If you just download zip,
John Corliss
Two points:
1. It depends on what you're downloading
2. Some rootkits are *extremely* difficult to detect.
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John Corliss
> John Corliss wrote:
>> Bob Villa wrote:
>>> IT Support wrote:
>>>> Saxman wrote:
>>>>>> LimeWire is a P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer
>>>>>> files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents
>>>>>> .....
>>>> ... much of which is infected with every known manner of virus, worm,
>>>> trojan etcetera.
>>> I have used Limewire and Frostwire with Avast P2P Shield with no
>>> infections for over a year. (also running Malwarebytes)
>> Two points:
>>
>> 1. It depends on what you're downloading
>> 2. Some rootkits are *extremely* difficult to detect.
>>
> If you just download zip, rar, type files they can be scanned for infections
> before they are opened. The worst ones to download are exe files.
>
> If you just download zip,
Guess you pressed the send button prematurely. However, I get the gist.
Yes, you're probably correct.
Still, I'll pass on file sharing for the most part. I do use utorrent on
the rare occasion though.
veeger...@snowcrest.net
wrote:
>dick blisters wrote:
>> John Corliss wrote:
>>> Bob Villa wrote:
>>>> IT Support wrote:
>>>>> Saxman wrote:
>
>Guess you pressed the send button prematurely. However, I get the gist.
>Yes, you're probably correct.
>
>Still, I'll pass on file sharing for the most part. I do use utorrent on
>the rare occasion though.
Unfortunately, even torrents can do you in.
Pirate Bay was fairly good but they have gone over to the dark side...
commercialism.
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John Corliss
> On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:35:59 -0700, John Corliss <q34w...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> dick blisters wrote:
>>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>> Bob Villa wrote:
>>>>> IT Support wrote:
>>>>>> Saxman wrote:
>> Guess you pressed the send button prematurely. However, I get the gist.
>> Yes, you're probably correct.
>>
>> Still, I'll pass on file sharing for the most part. I do use utorrent on
>> the rare occasion though.
>
> Unfortunately, even torrents can do you in.
Yes, I agree. However, as I mentioned I only use it rarely, and I mean
extremely rarely as well as with great caution. In fact, so rarely that
I doubt I'll ever use it again.
> Pirate Bay was fairly good but they have gone over to the dark side...
> commercialism.
Not really sure what you mean. T-shirts?
Richard Steinfeld
> Two points:
>
> 1. It depends on what you're downloading
> 2. Some rootkits are *extremely* difficult to detect.
>
I tried LimeWire perhaps three years ago to get my hands on updated
bundleware for a CD Burner that I owned and whose manufacturer was being
nasty about support (it was their own bundleware, in fact, and they
wanted big bucks from their older customers for it). It's a company
known for their exceptionally high-quality burners. I'll leave their
name out for now.
There were multiple download sources in LimeWire for it. I downloaded
every one of them. And every one of them carried an infection.
Well, no matter how good that burner is, how well-made and rugged it is,
when I needed two new burners, I didn't buy them from P******.
And at times like this, an uninstaller is my friend. LimeWire is
long-gone from my system.
Richard
Mark Marsh
> Pirate Bay sold out last week and the new owners will be
> relaunching it as a commercial venture, not unlike the way
> Napster went.
Can't say I blame them though I would do the same thing, $7.8m (SEK 60
million)...
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-sold-to-software-company-goes-legal-090630/
John Corliss
Yep, I'd have done the same thing. If $7.8 million is the "dark side",
then call me Darth Vader.
Please.
»Q«
John Corliss <q34w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mark Marsh wrote:
> > hummingbird wrote:
> >
> >> Pirate Bay sold out last week and the new owners will be
> >> relaunching it as a commercial venture, not unlike the way
> >> Napster went.
> >
> > Can't say I blame them though I would do the same thing, $7.8m (SEK
> > 60 million)...
> >
> > http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-sold-to-software-company-goes-legal-090630/
>
> Yep, I'd have done the same thing. If $7.8 million is the "dark
> side", then call me Darth Vader.
Especially if you were already a few million in the hole, thanks to a
court ruling you couldn't hope to appeal successfully. The sellouts
are catching a lot of backlash simply because up to the point of their
sellout, they spent a lot of time avowing their commitment to some kind
of piracy ideals and saying they'd never let down the piracy
community. (AIUI, everything's a community in Web 2.0.)
John Corliss
Interesting. Thanks for the info, »Q«.
Nomad
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Well, then what's a person to use (instead of Limewire) to mitigate the risk
of a serious malware infection?
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Metspitzer
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WinMx
http://mxpie.com/downloads.html
The red text labled "WinMX Community Patch" is the link
http://www.virustotal.com/ is a good site to verify the file is
clean.
Try that with Limewire.
Bob Villa
> "Saxman" <john.h.williamsremovet...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
Use Frostwire with Avast...I let my 16 yo use it (mp3's) without
problems!
bob_v
John Corliss
I couldn't tell you, since I don't do file sharing other than a very
rare uTorrent. And that's a thing of the past now for me.