Does limewire cause viruses?
453283
YES IT DOES. It doesnt filter anything. If you must continue your illegal activity, use something like Shareaza. No viruses there. Get it at shareaza.com.
769634
Your screwed, your computer needs to be cleaned, I doubt it's cause of limewire, i've had it for years and i'm doin fine.
287279
Limewire as a software does not infect the computers with viruses. But since the whole concept of file sharing is to allow users to easily share the files, care should be taken to ensure that you take the files from a reliable source as there are different types of people out there
628081
try downloading adaware- that usually will find that as a potentially harmful program. also you can use search under the start menu and type in limewire and anything that is found delete.
618613
As long as you have decent virus protection, you should have no problem. It might occasionally find a virus, but if it does, it will cancel the download. I've used it thousands of times and only found about 3 viruses. A lot of people say limewire is full of viruses, but I don't have any problems with it.
127387
As with any p2p, the files could have viruses. But, I have emule, and haven't had any probs with it.
355874
If you have good virus protection you should be O.K. I assume they were detected and removed before they got on your system\n\nThe viruses are not coming from Limewire. They are coming from the people you are downloading files from. You must have hit some bad ones to get four that quick.
1163120
first off....  just to bit.ch smack a few of the people in here that keep saying that mp3'z do or have contained viruses from limewire....  .. ITS POSSIBLE YES... BUT...do the real .mp3 files contain a virus NO!!!!...  its pretty simple to tack on a .mp3 extension to the end of any file or make a file look like an mp3 or .wma...  but in fact its not a real mp3 so.. NO.... real mp3 files DO NOT contain viruses..... people just need to look at the file sizes and the file name to see if anything looks suspicious....   but you have to watch out for files that might have multiple extensions like...   movie.avi.exe   or  song.mp3.bat.exe,  the bulk of viruses that come from limewire are usually from Program files ending in .EXE .BAT....  and I've even seen some video files that once you download them and click to play them.. they open up your browser and take you to a site that usually have spyware and viruses.....     you get the point.....     .... but I've never heard of mp3z being infected with or infecting pc's with viruses....    "YET"  lol
483124
limewire is getting well above 500,000 downloads a week from download.com. almost everyone in the p2p file sharing industry knows of and is scared of limewires power.  limewire has came on strong and the latest versions contain no spyware adware or viruses.  like all p2p file sharing programs be careful what folders you leave open to others as you can lose personel data. overall limewire has a great gui, great speed, and a wide variety of files available for download.
936131
yes, limewire, morpheus and bearshare all contain adware and malicious scripts. ( i have taken limewire apart ((the free version mind you, which you are talking about im sure) and dont trust others when they say that it doesnt. let me assure you that it DOES contain quite a few damaging scripts! )\n\nmore and more people are saying that they do not contain viruses and any virus that you gain is due to tainted content you downloaded with the program, this is not true.\n\nYes you CAN use these programs to get viruses, but the programs themselfs contain pop up advertisments, and in addition other harmful elements. the reason for this is so that the consumer would be more in clined to purchess the full version of this product.\n\n\nThe pay version of these programs, dont have viruses. (or at least limewire pro does not *confirmed*)
347115
use ARES, it may not have as many things to download but it seems to have a whole lot less viruses.  Limewire is infested with Trojan Viruses.
23828
it is true that you need virus scanner etc. all you need to do is go to limewire.com, go to download limewire, and then follow the instructions and there you go!
380955
Limewire is a free, downloadable file sharing program that does contain spyware. You can download it from limewire.com, but it might mess up your computer.  I had it for about three months and it was working great, and then bad things started happening. I was getting a ridiculous amount of popups and my computer started going really slow. It came to the point where I couldn't even work on it at all. I had to pay for a repairman to fix it and he took the program off for me and now my computer is running perfectly. So, use it at your own risk.
1010104
yeah, you can download games/files/songs/videos, etc.  and I'm sure some of them will have viruses.  But they're free!
923357
http://www.frostwire.com DONT FUCKIN USE LIMEWIRE!!!!!! ITS A WORLDWIDE SPYWARE....LIMEWIRE IS VIRUS PROOF NO JOKE...
1154173
Go to Start and run msconfig - delselect everything in services and startup.  You'll have to restart your PC.  After this, go into control panel and add/remove program - find the joke toolbar and unistall it.  The virus will still be on your PC but it won't be installed because you disabled it in msconfig.\n\nGo to Limewire.com and download Norton anti virus and follow the instructions for installation.  After you have installed it and restarted your PC (without being connected to the web) it will do a full scan and will delete the virus.  After this, restart your PC to make sure Norton is fine and run msconfig again to loads another other viruses.  Norton then then find them and destroy them.  After this, you can reconnect to the web
979394
It sure might be dangerous to have lime wire on your computer..Lime wire by itself do not have any spyware or virus in it..But,limewire can be used to obtain your msn or yahoo passwords..just be sure that you do not share your  windows rootdrive ..means..in the share folder option, do not put c: drive..put any other folder in any other drive..\nIf you put c drive..other users can search for yahoo.ini or similar and can find your encrypted password..it is just a matter of minutes for someone who knows abt computers to decrypt your password...