I recently downloaded and installed shareaza... it has a nice look, but for some reason I can't shake the idea that I'm about to torture myself with kazaa and emule's corrupt, incomplete, spammed and virus ridden files.... the first file I downloaded, when I ran it in media player asked for me to click on yes to download some security update from microsoft...., I then burned the file to a cd, ran it in my test computer, clicked on yes, and all hell broke loose... some downloader froze my machine and, needles to say, I didnt like that very much, that doesnt mean shareaza is not a good program, but I will stick to limewire which basically has gotten me 95% of the files I looked for, obviously I've had to sort out many virus or corrupt files, but it is much simpler to use, and has a much better user interface than any other program out there.
After kazaa and emule, I went for mirc, where in certain channels you were sure to get clean files, until I came across Limwewire.

Well that answers my question of "is shareaza still bad with virus's?" So I think I will stay clear of it.

Im looking for another program since BS went bonkers. Im not a big fan of LW tho.

I don't like Shareaza one bit but was has anything of this to do with Shareaza? You don't need Shareaza, LimeWire or anything in particular to download a virus. Neither LimeWire, BearShare or any other software will protect you against viruses. You really have to download and install "Common Sense 2006". That's the only thing which helps against viruses.

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nice call there hyperd00d, very nice...you obviously picked up on the trollish nature of this poster right quickly
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C'mon, Shareaza isn't bad, its so cool cuz it has 3 networks, the 2 versions of Gnutella and E-Donkey Net, it is so cool, and how Hyper-kun sayz, "neither Limewire, or Shareaza will help against viruses"...

My friend is telling me to get Shareaza, but I got LimeWirePro. I don't know which is better though, and I haven't really had a chance to test out LWP.

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and just how can you make any comment in comparison, considering you've never tried shareaza?...hmmmmm?????

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I said I didn't know. I still don't. I just heard more about LimeWire, especially PRO.

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I would like to get rid of the pop-up "Magnet Link Handler" when my Limewire program starts. Would anyone know how I can get rid of this annoying feature?

This is a recent phenom. Did not happen before.

Shareaza likes me. I can use it but not Limewire to connect. Might have been because I got a free download of PRO from File Planet...

but, Shareaza works great for me. I have yet to discover a "bad" file.

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I prefer Limewire over Shareaza, even though I used to use Shareaza all the time for a while...

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Ok, this is the lowdown on this whole thing. The viruses on P2P networks, they are on ALL of them man. There is not really a network without viruses. So what is the good news? The good news is that it is extremely easy to avoid every single one of them.

1. Never download all those 35 KB files that are almost always in WMA/WMV format. Look at the file, what file that small could possibly be of any use?

2. When searching for programs, NEVER NEVER download .exe files, download only .RAR or .ZIP files.

3. If you download a .RAR or .ZIP file, and it only has a single file inside, and the file is called Setup.exe be on the alert! This is useally a malware/spyware/virus type of file. I suggest that you scan it with a good virus scanner before if you still wish to open/run the file.

4. How to remove all those small virus/spyware files in the searches? Use shareaza's filter in the search window and set it to only show files that are 1 MB or larger. Any song or video worth looking at will be bigger than that!

If you follow these rules you reduce the chances of ever getting a virus/spyware infection almost completely.

If you are not intelligent enough to follow these rules, or you think it is too much work to do so, you should strongly think about not useing ANY P2P program.

For all the people who liked LimeWire or BeareShare and said the network got you most of what you wanted, but you didn't get that with shareaza, hahahahahah. You all should know those two programs use the GNutella network, which is one of the multiple networks shareaza can connect to, which means if you had it set to connect to them, you would have access to the same files....

thank you for pointing out the obvious...this thread is on my list of threads to remove as it is just basically a trollish attack against a reputable client..

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on second thought, I'm just gonna lock this thread...


CLOSED!

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