I would edit these posts but for some reason my browser keeps telling me i followed an invalid link and i cant.

In C:/Windows/prefetch folder ther is a file with winupdates in the filename It has to do with this virus so DELETE IT!!

I am getting the same thing but was not able to follow your directions. Here is what is going on with my system (P4 1.2, 700+ MB memory, win XP fully updated).

As you said Task mang. would not run with the normal key strokes.

I could not find system32 in the win dir, it wasn't there. I did a search for taskmrg.exe and found it and put it on my desktop.

I ran it and found cpu usage to be at most 11%.

I looked for winupdates.exe and did not see it.

I was able to uninstall LW and of course it no longet starts every few sec. or when I open some programs ......but I get a java error message telling me it can't start so it's still there just the program is not there to run.

Have you any help for me to get rid of the POS?

Thanks,

Steve

all of my friends have downloaded limewire and always said how they never had problems with it so i downloaded it...what a mistake. but after following these step's i removed anything that looked suspicious and now im a happy man!

what happens when you uninstall limewire, but a notice keeps popping up that says copy report at the bottom. it has a bunch of descriptive errors and such in the document. i shut it all down and when i came on today, i tried to open up Word, and it froze. word has been doing that ever since i got limewire. what the heck is happening?
this is what the message looks like:

Go to program files, Press L untill you get to Limewire and just delete the folder. Thats how I fixed it for myself.

I downloaded lime wire and the player on it will not play my downloads when it does play it sounds as if its jumping and freezing all of the songs are doing it.Iv tryed uninstalling it and re installing it and nothing its still the same.

im having the same problem but i dont have a program called winupdates.exe on my task manager... and i dont have that CPU thing youhave to press on 2 times. i have a program call winlog.exe but i dont think thats the same thing i need help immediatley

my limewire keeps opening itself up also but i don't seem to have a virus as far as i can see is there anyone who might know why this is happening and what i can do to stop it from opening itself thanks for any help you can offer

Double check that you don't have LW set to run on system startup (tools > options > advanced > system startup. Untick 'run on system startup' & apply). Just because you can't see a virus, doesn't mean that it's not there.
Please see point 4 in the thread below
WARNING: Viruses on the network you should be aware of

My install of limewire is exiting whenever I click on any file and try to download it, this is really starting to annoy me so I am currently doing a virus scan with Mcafee that was provided by comcast, my isp. Does anyone have any idea what needs to be done to stop this? First some darn annoying program started upon login to my account and now this crap. The program was called wmedia.exe and I found it running in my task manager, ended it then deleted the files associated with it.