I was thinking about getting livewire/limewire cuz i think it is cool! but i am wooried it is going to screw up my computer. Am i right? Has it caused viruses to any of you people? and should i sign up for it?
2006-12-28 03:13:56 · 11 answers · asked by peace love & lipgloss 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I find it pretty much USELESS. I have not been to able to find a single thing that I have been searching for, including music. And yes, I twice got a trojan, but AVG caught them, so no harm. Maybe others like Ares and Morpheus are better.
Its Limewire, not Livewire.
Happy New Year!!
2006-12-28 03:16:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Limewire is hosted in the USA, so, when the RIAA won the Grokster lawsuit, (through some ignorance on the part of the judge about technology!), see groklaw... the RIAA forced Limewire, through extortion by their powerful lobby of lawyers, to BUILD IN some back doors, blockers, and trackers for the RIAA (and, their 'buddies', the MPAA!)!
2. Those also introduced huge vulnerabilities! ALWAYS, run your computer behind a SEPERATE Hardware FIREWALL!!! I prefer http://ipcop.org on a 133mhz or faster system. A great way to recycle older machines!
3. The development team moved all the OPEN SOURCE CODE to servers OFF SHORE, where they built a NEW VERSION called FROSTWIRE, that even runs more options than LIMEWIRE PRO!!! AGAIN, it is FREEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! http://frostwire.com
4. Many of the 821 distros of *BSD and GNU/Linux include it among the bittorrent file transfer programs for our transfer and collections of Open Source Software, and files!
5. My favorite is http://pclinuxos.com that comes with 5500 FREE games, programs, applications, office suites, and runs upto 50X FASTER than any Microsoft OS ever has, on the SAME hardware! All the school kids love it! Yes, it includes Free Civilization, Lincity, Atlantik (live internet IM Monopoly), XFrisk,
and all the IM and IRC Chat programs!
The kids in Orlando say it is smart to be safe, so, run http://pclinuxos.com on any computer from 350mhz up to the latest systems!
2006-12-28 12:02:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
limewire is actually a very good program to have. there was a time about a year ago that someone dumped a virus into the network, but most of that has been removed. there are still a few, but you can recognize them by their file size. if it looks way too small to be what it's supposed to be, it's a virus. if you don't download it, you will be ok.
2006-12-28 11:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by wrldzgr8stdad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can definitely get viruses and spyware from LimeWire...just be VERY careful what you download (music is fine, everything else watch out for).
2006-12-28 11:17:04 · answer #4 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I download from Limewire. You do have to be careful indeed. But as long as you have a good anti-virus program I wouldn't worry about it.
2006-12-28 11:17:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your going to get limewire get pro my friend got the basic and it bombed her computer and the virus just took over and she had to get a new one so go with the pro!
2006-12-28 11:16:23 · answer #6 · answered by *{I'm~your~Girl!}* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it caused viruses
2006-12-28 11:21:48 · answer #7 · answered by Isuru Madushanka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It hasn't caused any viruses to me and I've been using lime wire for a long period of time.
2006-12-28 11:17:55 · answer #8 · answered by HanyJam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had no problems with it, that I am aware of. However the potential is there when using any such programs where you are downloading files from people you do not know.
2006-12-28 11:21:27 · answer #9 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u should so far i havent got any viruses....knock on wood
it doesnt mess up ur computer but u should make sure u have enough space on ur computer to hold it
2006-12-28 11:16:05 · answer #10 · answered by flatteredwu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋