convincing my mom that limewire doesnt give you viruses...?

Question

I downloaded it yesterday. And she told my that she needs to check it out because she doesn't want to get and viruses. Is there any websites that have VERY CONVINCING and very positive reviews? PLEASE? :(

Answer 1

NO LIME WIRE DOES NOT GIVE PEOPLE VIRUSES I HAD LIME WIRE FOR 2 YEARS AND NOTHING.

Answer 2

You will not find any websites that will convince others that Limewire is safe. There are a couple reasons for this:



1) A very large percentage of files available are pirated, and therefore illegal to download



2) More than half of all files that are available on Limewire contain viruses and spyware



Sorry, but your parents are being smart here.



If you must download and use Limewire, I highly reccomend that you download files into the limewire folder, then scan those files for both virus and spyware first.



As a computer guy who helps our friends, I refuse to help those with Limewire as it just means there will be tons of problems and it will take hours to clean, only to let them make the same mistakes again.

Answer 3

Bad news - Limewire gives you some pretty savage viruses. The transfer system they use enables people to send stuff AS IS to you. This means they can create a virus, give it a clever name like "Linkin Park - What I've Done (CD Quality)" and send it right to you. That very thing happened to me, and that's why I gave up Limewire a long time ago. If you have a good enough anti-virus (say, Norton 360), though, you should be marginally OK, but don't sue me if/when you get a virus, because I'd be broke within the closer part of a week.

Answer 4

Lime wire and Frost Wire both are bad news. Anytime you file share your asking to get hit with something nasty. Don't do it.



BUT! And that's a BIG but' There is only one way that i can figure around it. External Hard Drive. Whatever you download' Download to a external hard drive. Get the best Anti virus money can buy and run it on the external drive. Burn all your songs to a CD. If the external hard drive gets full of viruses' and it will' Run a on line disk eraser' reformat the external drive and start again. I'm not saying this will work. I am saying this is a option to look into. Never tried it myself. It may not work. It's just a idea.

Answer 5

All these negative replies should convince you...

Bit torrent and other file sharing sites being used to get (free) music and videos can be total disaster for your Windows machine.

Because they use multiple 'peer contributors' to feed bits & parts of a requested file (music, movies, etc.) back to you, there can never be any kind of certainty about the status of the sender's file.

Whatever they have = you get: malevolent or not.



Once downloaded to your machine, all bets are off about it's safety to open, transfer, use or re-send; and size of a file has little bearing on what it may or may not contain; scanned or otherwise.



To get an idea of how prolific and devastating this can be just look at the number of 'Yahoo Answers> Security' requests for help about virus/spyware.

Most of these Yahoo users are younger & more likely to be using the trendy socializing sites and peer-2-peer services (Limewire, etc.). Hackers know this and target efforts to infect machines by these sources (aka 'vector').



Once infected, a long cleaning , endless aggravation & malware prevention steps will not guarantee immunity from a re-infection, because virus crafters constantly change the names, file properties, footprint & signature, source vectors or anything possible to propagate their garbage.

Use @ your own peril...

Answer 6

If you use limewire, you WILL get viruses. People hide viruses in all sorts of music/videos. Your mom is right.



I have gotten many from using it on my own computer.



Of course it is not Limewire giving you the virus, rather the files you download form other people.

Answer 7

well downloading songs can be safe if you know which files are corrupt and which are safe.

I would also recommend getting frost wire instead as it is built on the pro version of limewire and is safer and more secure.



Do not download movies or software directly from limewire/frost wire, those cant really be trusted in that area

Answer 8

i exploit avg antivirus and that i think of its large yet I truly have been employing limewire for a protracted time and ive by no potential gotten a virulent disease i assume you will ought to discover ways to tell which archives could have viruses earlier u acquire, a manner i do it truly is via narrowing my seek and additionally look on the bitrate, if it says 128kbps or greater, it sholud be fantastic, do no longer acquire those that dont have a bitrate. you mays additionally wanna look at what format the document is

Answer 9

I really suggest not using Limewire anymore. It has a lot of spyware built into the program itself which infects your computer. And the network has a lot of fake files, and it has many viruses.



WinMX has no spyware, no fake files, and is fast and easy to use.



It even blocks the RIAA/MPAA from getting on the network, so you can't possibly be caught downloading/uploading.



http://www.patchwinmx.com



It even forwards ports for you so you don't have to do it yourself.

Answer 10

limewire is bad you can easily catch viruses i'd prefer torrents as most of them are safe not like limewire

Answer 11

Limewire itself is safe but the files you download with it are NOT. So I say NO, do not use it.

Answer 12

Uh, no.



Limewire doesn't give you viruses, it's the stuff you download that does.

Answer 13

sure and the cow jumped over the moon --get real

duh any time u file share from an open source ur asking for trouble

so that is why ur pc doesnt get infected when u use a paid service

Answer 14

stay away from limewire

Answer 15

its fine, just don't download anything that looks like it could be dangerous...ive had it for years without anything happening

Answer 16

Mom is right!