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Old January 13th, 2005
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If you'd like to provide screenshots, go ahead. It doesn't change the fact that LimeWire contains absolutely no bundled software. If a tool you're using detects LimeWire as bundling something, then the simple fact of the matter is the tool is wrong.

To re-iterate, LimeWire contains absolutely no bundled software, no spyware, no adware, no nothing. All LimeWire contains is LimeWire.

If you would like the technical answer ...

Microsoft's tool is detecting a registry key known as a "magnet handler". This key allows programs to use magnet links (see http://creativecommons.org/wired for some example magnet links) to download files via a p2p program, similiar to the way http links allow browsing within a webbrowser. The first tool that Microsoft found who used magnet links was "Grokster" (a competing P2P program). Because Microsoft did not know what the link was for, they falsely labelled it a threat (and named it Grokster). It is not a threat. It is perfectly legimate.

To repeat one more time: there is no spyware or bundled software in LimeWire.
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