Greetings bingogirl,

Welcome to the Gnutella forums!

By default, portions of files that you are downloading (your Incomplete folder) are being shared with other users. Completed downloads are also shared by default. You can see which directories (folders) are being shared by Limewire (I think it's under the options tab). You're probably sharing only those two folders.

Anything sent out over the Internet cannot be gotten back. Even e-mails leave copies on servers, etc. Once it's out there, it's virtually there to stay.

Hello Blackhorse 70V,

Thankyou for your response.

What I noticed on the monitor tab was that specific files from my laptop where being uploaded (eg work files that I personally named) without my permission. I hit the stop upload cross. This stopped it. I looked around and changed the settings to the slowest upload speed and it appears to have stopped it.

I know I sound naive but how can they do this. I understand what you said about what I had downloaded and completely agree with this. But it appeared that people where scanning my computer and pulling information back.

I went and searched for the specific file names I saw going up and they were on limewire in some various formats. I then decided to search for some strange file names I have created and they were also on limewire.

How can I isolate all of my files so that they will not be pulled back if I changed the setting on uploads back to the default settings. I have a modem, router, broadband and nortons.

Thankyou for you help so far