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balboa2151 November 29th, 2008 06:52 PM

virus alert
 
my son and i just rented fred clause and one of the songs that was good was " *****" so i loaded limewire and tried to download it and with every download my norton's was picking up trojan's and other corrupted files. be careful. rich
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birdy November 29th, 2008 10:05 PM

Heaps of infected files are shared on the network. Some are shared to sabotage p2p & some are shared because people aren't aware that the file they're sharing is infected. Check out the links below for more info & always scan a downloaded file with a good, updated AV program, before you open it;)


Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them (click on blue link to see)

* WARNING: Viruses on network you should be aware of ! *


And some links with info about bad files being deliberately shared in this thread: Fake files showing up in search results

balboa2151 November 30th, 2008 01:15 PM

thx for info it was very helpful. many files were on that list that i was trying to download. thx again rich


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