I just noticed that everytime i download a song on Limewire, It shares it?

Question

Anyone ever notice that number in the bottom left in the green oval? I put my mouse over it, and it says "You are sharing 223 files" ! ! ! It does that everytime i download the song. Is their a way to turn that off?

does it mabye mean that im sharing it with my network? (Because their is one modem in my house that shares internet with three computers)

Hey people that are scared of trojan horses and worms, their is a way o identify them on Limewire: On the top where it has stuff like "name, #, type, kind, size, etc" well, whenever you are about to download a song, make sure that the size of it is at least 1,000KB!

Answer 1

If you want to make sure you dont share any of the files you have downloaded with limewire then yes you can turn off sharing the thing on the main page will still say sharing but you wont be sharing it to other people through the net . What you do is go to tools on the top then go to options then expand uploads then click on slots and highlite the number where it says uploads per person and change the number to 0 then also change the number of upload slots to 0 and click apply and thats it .

Answer 2

You are making a very big mistake using that. I've heard some people that've used limewire, got owned! Like worms and trojans, you name it. Someone would have to be pretty brave now, to be using unsafe p2p. its good if you dont get caught, but, with all the crack downs they're doing... I used to use winmx, but that got shafted unfortuneatly!

Answer 3

If you highlight all of your songs in Limewire, right click on them and click Stop Sharing. Sharing them will make your computer run slower...

Answer 4

Yeah, thats how peer to peer works -- everyone shares and everyone downloads. You can turn it off in your preferences, but if everyone turns it off, Limewire will cease to exist.