BS sends a signal out using Internet Explorer, not sure exactly what that is all about, but it does..hence a redirect (I notice quite a few HP installed redirects in the HiJackThis report) might jack with you...and as a fact, HP is paid to pre-install spyware on their machines....!@#$%^&*( a$$holes.....so definitely run AdAware and Spybot to try and clean it up!

i tried the older version of bearshare and the bear utility and my comp still froze >.<

have you tried scanning with AdAware and Spybot yet?

i have spybot but not adaware :o

one further possible culprit....go to Program Files\BearShare Test\db folder and delete ALL files with library in their names....then restart BS and see what happens

i love you.. ^-^! OK i hardly know you but hey.. >.> it works and its downloading at the moment and it hasn't froze! woot woot! so yeah, i've had my friends getting all up in a knot about limewire is better and so on and so forth. which is actually better? or is it just a matter of opinion?

edit: THE SONG FINISHED DOWNLOADING! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! you've made my day, ty!

OK so!!! i we to download more songs, and i started clicking 4 or 5 and then bearshare froze up and i was forced to reboot... so its when i download multiple songs at once that makes it freeze... any new ideas?

do you use bear share to load music onto your i pod

read the details of how I have my BS configured here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=62890

if your internet connection is similare, then configure your copy the same...

you haven't posted the specs of your computer, so perhaps doing so will enable me to make a judgement if there are other issues...

I highlight and download a large number of files at once, and have never had BS crash on me (though on large numbers of multiple files it will lag a bit)

never mind on the specs of your box, as I noticed they were in one of the reports you posted...the only big difference between yours and mine is that I have 2GB of ram...

your pagefile setting seems a tad high, but within range....since you most likely have your OS set to automatically configure that, leave it as such

I don't have iTunes setup on my computer (because I refuse to participate in such a limited device as those made by Apple), but the BS beta version linked to in this post has the ability to work with iTunes