New Virus On Limewire

ursula · #1 (**permalink**) May 21st, 2008

Thanks for the HU, but, PLEASE, remember... there are NO viruses on Limewire...

Limewire is simply one of numerous p2p 'clients' that work within the Gnutella Network...

The viruses that are out there are from US.

US meaning normal users.

Many 'normal users' do not know that they are sharing infected files.

This is because they are, first, victims of the idiocy and arrogance of the client developers and, further, because they are trying to run a marathon before they can even fantasize about crawling.

The above means that one should NEVER allow ANY sharing from the default DownLoads Folder...
NEVER allow 'Partial Filesharing'...
NEVER put any file into a Shared Folder until it has been checked for viruses, proper tagging and actually TESTED !
In simple words... If you do NOT know the quality of something, why should you share it with someone else ?
And, if one does share without first really checking the quality, than there is absolutely no grounds for complaint, right ???

Those who share sh¡t are THE PROBLEM.
Each and every one of us must use great discipline to be certain to NOT share sh¡t.
It's easy if you care.

Hey, BCOOL, the above isn't aimed AT you...
Just saw the soap-box you carried out here to the field and thought I climb on !!!

Ta !

p.s. As long as I am up here, on the box, could a request also be made to you fools that are sharing huge numbers of files to NEVER EVER be an Ultrapeer ?
You are wrecking the network with such stupidity. You're also limiting your own p2p activities !