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Question

Should I have a firewall active when using Limewire? I'm not that familiar with computers. Is a firewall like Mcafee which blocks viruses? If I need one, how do I go about getting one? Please don't tell me not to use Limewire cause I don't need to try any others sites cause so far I'm very happy with LW.

Answer 1

firewall do not block virus
they control incoming and outgoing traffic
nothing more
your AV software coupled with your antiad and antispyware software is what helps you from getting infected in the 1st place.. that and your browser.

99% of all internet problems can be attributed to the wrong set of Web browser and Email clients in coordination of the
AV/ Spyware / Firewall software.


Get the following, all are free for a safe surfing experience, with proven track records and do not take up
system resources like Norton or McAffee.
install in SAFE mode with networking ( hit F-8 at boot time ), run them all in SAFE mode
with networking as you'll need it for the updates all the programs below will need.
Turn off RESTORE and the RECYLE BIN temporarily as virii can regenerate / reinfect even if you delete
them with both services on. After all the scanning and cleaning after a 2nd reboot and one last
scan do you turn both of them back on.

ANTI VIRAL

AVG (free) http://free.grisoft.com/


FIREWALL

ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

WEB BROWSER - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

EMAIL use thunderbird. It has a good built in spam filter and learns when you teach it. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

SPYWARE

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Once you set it all up create 3 email accounts..

a hotmail or yahoo account for web "verification", this account you will not care if it get spammed

a sub account ( from the master account )to your ISP that you use for logons, this is the one you use for personal
emails only to trusted people and banking, ebay and paypal. Never use the account for anything else than that,
you find spam is low to non existant if you follow this rule, and even if it does become spam laden, then you
can delete the account and create a new sub account and do all the email updates to ebay, paypal, banks and your
freinds.

finally your master account from your ISP, this one you NEVER use, it's only kept for creating sub accounts since
changing the master account is a real pain.


and if you have a wireless router follow these tips,


1. Use WPA encryption (WPA-PSK) it's less crackable then WEP.

2. Make a passphrase that is upper & lower case and has some numbers thrown in there as well, again harder to crack.
some like mAkE1t5eCurE0rel53 and as long as possible.

3. Use MAC access control so only you or authorized PC's can connect (even if you do have encryption turned on)

4. Turn off DHCP use static addresses.

5. Turn off SSID (and change it) unless your card really needs it (some do)

6. Change username/password of access unit front end

7. Ensure you have the usual firewall enabled on your PC.

8. Paranoia rules, turn WLAN off if your not using it :)


one last tip
control panel---administrator tools--services--messenger

right clik on it
stop the service
then disable it
save changes

Answer 2

Hi

Yeah limewire is great. From the research i have just done know, i think that there is a firewall built into Mcaffee. To unable this you need to look in the Mcaffee application and see if there is anywhere that says firewall. If there is make sure it is either turned of or it is allowed the port for Limewire.

Also make sure that windows firewall is not blocking Limewire. If your using xp click start, control panel, windows firewall and then click exeptions and make sure that Limewire is checked.

Hope this sorts out your problem. However if it dosnt try re-installing Limewire, this could help.

P.S. Have you tried www.fullreleases.com

Answer 3

I wonder if you will be happy with lime wire when the copy right people catch up with you for pirating software, As a subscriber you are committing a crime by downloading copy right music, videos, movies, software and other copy right material and by permitting others to download off your computer in the network. you can be find imprisoned or both and have your equipment confiscated

catch up on the news on what it as cost others for using limewire for pirating

Answer 4

Ares (galaxy- free) P2P does the same and is better. You need a good anti virus to protect yourself from these. ~
The best I have found is Pandasoftware.com
The have a 30 day trial...