Dangerous Download Cancelled
 

This file may have been designed to damage your computer. LimeWire has cancelled the download for your protection.

I'm seeing this message way too often and it's tagging files that shouldn't be tagged.

I have recovered several of these downloads (restoring the deleted files) or found work-arounds to download the files and that last 12 times this message popped up for me the files were virus-free.

How do I disable this? I'm wasting way too much time on it.

Thanks!

The LW 5.3 beta prevents such files even being downloaded. Unlike LW 5.2

What makes you think they are not bad files. It might not be virus, could be any kind of security threat. Might also be commonly spammed files like audio files that are duds ... or with something to ruin the sound or song, or for videos, might be some kind of common porn.

BTW if you are really unhappy with LW 5, you could always downgrade to LW 4 if you wished; Downgrading to LimeWire 4 from 5 & resuming incomplete downloads

I didn't put this in my first post.

Norton finds no problem with the files.

The audio files and the video files play perfectly. I'm really at a loss as to why they were tagged and deleted when they should not have been.

the fact that Norton doesn't find any problems means squat...the Symantec products are pretty low on the list of security software these days...

on the flip side of the argument, I've heard so many complaints about this feature in the new LW that I can only think that the devs have, yet again for the umpteenth time, hosed it...

Hi ThePowerTool,

I've not upgraded to the LW5.x and haven't used LW now for several years, but you could take LOTR's advise and downgrade to LW4.x.xx.

I think the new LW versions are a work in very slow progress, and I don't think things are going to change or get fixed at a very fast pace. If this issue your haveing with the "New" security implementation of the newer versions continue, just downgrade. I think thats about your only option right now.

Remoc,

It just happened, again.

I was thinking along the same lines. When I first moved to the 5.x code I didn't realized it was still in such a beta state. They did fix some of the most egregious issues but the new "security feature" that's missing the "disable" option that kills good downloads is too much. I'm definitely looking at my options and downgrading is certainly one.

I've been using Limewire for many years and have really enjoyed it up to this point. I don't know what's going wrong but I do hope they get a handle on it so these issues are minimized. I do not recall things being this bad with previous releases.

Thanks!

Same PROBLEM... I hope the future Limewire have an advance user option that can disable/enable some feature of limewire...

Have a read of http://www.gnutellaforums.com/348490-post9.html
So maybe the video itself looks ok, but ...

I read the post--good info. I've upgraded to 5.3 and still have good files killed.

I'm running on Linux. The check is killing anything that is mis-labeled--and a lot of content is mis-labeled.

There needs to be a way to disable this check because it's deleting files that are fine other than being mislabeled with an incorrect extension. Or is there a way to turn this off in 5.3?

Hey. I'm having the same problem, buddy.
Could you tell me how you retrieved these canceled downloads?
I just spent about 3 weeks downloading a file (my computer is really slow), and right at the end.... the damn thing got canceled, and I'm not computer savvy enough to find out where they went...
Can you help me out?
Thanks,
bubba2match

If they are cancelled they are deleted. The reason they are deleted is because they are known to contain virus/dangerous imbeded files within.

OK, that's misleading.

While it is true that downloads cancelled by Limewire may be dangerous (you have been warned) it is my personal experience that they are more frequently cancelled for less egregious issues (e.g. file extension not matching content--read this entire thread for details).

There are two ways that I have used to recover a file deleted because Limewire mis-identified it as "dangerous."

Warning: If you use either of these two methods you need to virus check the file. You are recovering a file the LW deleted because LW thought it was dangerous and it may be dangerous.

1. Undelete the file. You may have to undelete the temporary file. I've had challenges with this method since LW 5.1.3. For some reason the method LW is using to delete the file isn't leaving anything for undelete apps to pick up.

2. Stop the DL at 99% and attempt to use the temporary file.

Neither is a good solution but can be work-able.

If you do not have an undelete app then Google for one. There are numerous options and some are free (you may want to try method 2, first).

The only good option at this point is to switch to a gnutella client that won't delete your files. After all, this is a gnutella client not a virus checker. I haven't given up on LW, yet, but have been using it less because of this specific issue.

Good luck!

Correction: LW version 5.1.3 is where I first noticed the problem with LW incorrectly identifying files as dangerous. It was shortly after that when I noticed method 1 not working (sorry, I don't remember which version).