How can I use Limewire to download songs and not get virus/malware?

Question

What are your styles, techniques,configuration & settings in relation to security to ensure songs downloaded from Limewire(free version) will not give my pc virus and/or malware?

Im mainly intend to download songs...not movies, programs, or exe file.

Answer 1

Normally, the songs don't have Malware or Viruses. I'd suggest not using it and probably using Yahoo! Music or Napster or something.

But, just watch what your downloading, always have your firewall and protection gear on.

If you do get something that can be bad use this solution:

Use my solution in order to clean up your computer! I have tested it many times before!!


Malicous Software Removal

Please download the following tools, Please Note, that you can only have one firewall and one AntiVirus going at once, If you have the AVG Pro set, then keep that, if you use something else, then I suggest you use this combo:

AntiVirus (My Reccomendation: AVG)

http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/ Comodo AntiVirus

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0 AVG AntiVirus

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Avast! AntiVirus


Anti Spyware/Rootkit Tools (Please download all of them!)

http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html
Comodo BO Clean- Anti-Malware

www.safer-networking.org/
Spybot Search and Destroy

www.emsisoft.com/en/software/f...
A-Squared Anti-Spyware Free

www.lavasoft.com
Ad-Aware Personal SE

Firewall:

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
Comodo Personal Firewall


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Step-By-Step Method to Ensuring YOUR Security

1) Uninstall ALL Anti-Virus and Firewalls that you may already have. As these, will cause conflicts with the ones you will be suggested to download.

2) Download ALL of the programs above.

3) After download all the programs re-start your computer once, ensuring that all/most of the programs start on start-up. Ad-Aware, Spybot and AVG Anti Rootkit and A-Squared shouldn't. Make sure the firewall and AntiVirus do though.

4) Update all of the programs. You should do daily updates, and weekly scans. This will most definitly ensure your protection and your system status!

5) Re-Boot your computer into Safe mode. To log into safe mode, "Button-Mash" (simoltaneously hit the key) F8. Then if it gives you a menu, hit "Safe-Mode".

6) After giving it a minute or two to start-up, open up all of the AVG programs. Run them; give them an hour or two as this is their first scan.

7) Save your report if it gives you the option to, and if it does happen to detect a virus, and then simply remove it.

8) Open up, A-Squared Free Edition, Ad-Aware, Spybot, but, NOT WINDOWS DEFENDER! Run all of these programs and use them to scan. Again, if they detect anything then delete it. If you detected something previously in the AVG Scans then Congratulations! AVG was a great choice for you.

9) Open Windows Defender. Windows Defender is average, and takes a while to scan. Let that scan, and it shouldn't find anything at this point.

10) Congratulations! You have succesfully completed this Anti-Infection Proccess and you are guarenteed safety!

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Need a Clean-up?

Download:
www.ccleaner.com/
A simple program that removes unused and temporary files from Windows machines.

O&O Defrag
http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/produ...
O&O Defrag Professional is the most professional and user-friendly features ever found in defragmentation software.

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Step-By-Step method on cleaning up your Comp (Basic Version only):

1) Run & Install all the programs above

2) Restart Computer to ensure installation

3) Run Safe Mode (Explained in Virus Clean-Up above)

4) Run all the programs, but NOT O&O Defrag YET!

5) CCleaner will find some stuff and hit fix this and it will clean basic things.

6) Now, for this, make sure, that you DO NOT have any programs running. Exit out of any programs running!!

7) Run O&O Defrag. You'll see on the top toolbar "Defragmentation" Click that, and then hit "Complete/Name" This is the most complex organization tool and will take a long, long time! I'd recommend doing this overnight while your sleeping!

What you should do Daily/Weekly:

 Update all of your programs, DAILY
 Scan your computer using all programs WEEKLY
 Defragment using O&O Software, MONTHLY (you can do weekly, if you wish)
 Run CCleaner & Disk Clean Up (Found in the Accessories Part of the start menu) Daily!

Answer 2

Ehm..
I really like Limewire, I'm actually an avid user of it. If I want to download a music file I use Limewire always. you should get limewire too. It's a good peer to peer software if you have to download mp3, movies, videos or documents. Here you can find a good place where to download Limewire: http://j.mp/VMertc
Limewire is a safe and reliable program but like all peer to peer program you have to be careful of what you are donwloading from it. You always have to be cautious about what you download.
Don't use torrents/downloads from other sites, they might be backdoored.
It's surely the leader program of its type
Cheers ;)

Answer 3

Since you said you're just downloading songs, you should be ok. It's the movies (especially .wmv's) and software that can cause problems. I've personally never had a problem with Limewire.

Just to be safe though, get yourself some antivirus software if you don't have any. Avast! and AVG Free are both great and free (I run both).

Answer 4

pay attention to the info and the description to the songs you are downloading. for example the size of some song is 4,082 KB with a bit rate of 128 and most of the songs of the same name have the same size and bit rate or slightly different by a few KB. compare this info with another song with the same name. usually, the one with virus/spyware will deviate a lot from the majority, for example 1,366 KB with bit rate of 128.

if you don't think you can do that, i suggest the use of pc virtualization software such as bufferzone or VMware player. both of them are free. when you download the song, open it with one of the two above mentioned programs. i think you do this by right-clicking the song. if this isn't how you do it, they will tell you how to do it on their website or when you install it. (they usually have a tutorial for you right after you finish installing)

don't forget to scan the song(s) you've just downloaded with antivirus scanner
you right click the song(s) and click scan with .... whatever antivirus software you have

Answer 5

I'd recommend you to run an anti-virus/anti-spyware/anti-malware scanner on any files you download using this method of obtaining music, before you run/play them.

Answer 6

I have been using limewire for over two years now and i use anti -virus,a free one ,its called avast anti-virus.Its very good, i have had no problems whatsoever,hope that helps.

Answer 7

Try another program like Frostwire or Blubster which are both free

Answer 8

pay the $19 bucks; it's worth not getting the spyware!

Answer 9

have a good anti virus software on your system

Answer 10

try project playlist instead