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[nicklopeke]

Originally posted by ukbobboy01
Dear All

From time to time people like nicklopeke pop out of the woodwork writing all sorts of nonsense about LW containing spyware.

What these people don't say is that they got their copy of LW from a bogus or scam site, where LW, being open source, is crammed to the hilt with malware. However, if they bothered to get LW from the following official site:

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

they would find that there is no spyware, virus or anything else installed along with LW.

The only other way you could find malware in LW is from a bogus anti-spyware application showing false positives. The only recommended (good) anti-spyware apps out there are as follows:

Ad-Aware SE 1.06 from Lavasoft.
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4 from Spybot
MS Anti-Spyware (beta) from Microsoft.

and they are all free.

Anything else is likely to be a cloned rip-off version of Adware and/or Spybot.

UK Bob

Man, your really dumb. LimeWire has spyware. Just because they post something on their website saying it has no spyware doesn't make it true. As I said, not all programs can detect this "hidden" spyware. So smarten up kid.