Actually, your friend shows total ignorance in software operations, if he suggest activating the "supposed" virus then he is an idiot, its his type that viruses flourish on and spread to others, he a bleedin fool!

I like many others downloaded LW from an official site, I'm also very security minded, everything and I mean everything is scanned before installation, LW came up very clean!

I would suggest that your antivirus prog is either none existent or poorly installed, I also reckon if I was to probe your computer I would find 1000s of holes in your firewall, if indeed you have one, do not blame Limewire for your own ignorance.

And if your friend is using Windows ME, then he has a big problem, Windows ME was eventually taken off the market because it had huge security issues NOT because it was superceeded!

I would never take advice from anyone that still uses Windows ME, sheesh!!