"I get virus alerts from my Nortons, but when I disable this"
was your remark which let me to abandon the tactful approach. If people use anti virus software, which then really must! There is no sense in ignoring it or dissabling it.
I wasn't greeted by very tactful remarks when I joined the forums either
The gnutella network is a P2P network for the exchange of files. It is not a free download service for movies, programmes or anything else the scam sites profess to sell. The following link explains a bit about the scams.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28751
As for Zip files and .exe files. It is generally recommended that extreeme care be taken if downloading these files from any sourses which are not 100% trustworthy.
If yu decide to follow LOTR's link to the OFFICIAL Limewire site, welcome to Limewire!