is it possible

kevin442 · #1 August 12th, 2004

to get viruses from downloading stuff off of lime wire. i know u can get viruses kazaa (been there, done that) so thats why i wanted to try something difrent

et voilà · #2 August 12th, 2004

Salut Kevin, unfortunatly, it is possible to get viruses on everything

On windows systems I recommend a good antivirus software and you are good to go with any P2P. Of course I do not have any antivirus software on my mac

Bonne chance

murasame · #3 August 12th, 2004

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Originally posted by et voilà
Of course I do not have any antivirus software on my mac

Of course.
I do have one though: Norton Antivirus. So far, I think I've encountered 2 or 3 viruses, but they were all for PC so no worries. I just figured I could eliminate them from my system so that I can serve a non-infected file to the net.

As a side note, one of the virsues I encoutered was from those emails that filled the mailboxes, entitled 'Important' or 'Hello' and which had an urgent status. Hah! Guess what? They were PC only too. Not that I want more viruses for Mac...

et voilà · #4 August 12th, 2004

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Originally posted by murasame
[B]Of course.
I do have one though: Norton Antivirus. So far, I think I've encountered 2 or 3 viruses, but they were all for PC so no worries. I just figured I could eliminate them from my system so that I can serve a non-infected file to the net.

Héhé, thing is that antivirus softwares slow down machines a lot (even on a 3.06 ghz P4 with a fast hard drive). If I'm immune (mac), I say get the hell out of here stupid antivirus programs!!! Powa to the people!

(also, email with viruses are SO easily identifiable -- and trashable--

).

Ciao

murasame · #5 August 12th, 2004

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Originally posted by et voilà
also, email with viruses are SO easily identifiable -- and trashable--)

You can say that again. I myself only opened the mail and downloaded the content to see if it was Mac-compatible. It was so damn obvious it was a virus. Pff. At least now I don't get these emails anymore.