Limewire 4.8 - security issue
 

Anyone got ideas about the message when LW starts up "upgrade to limewire 4.8, this is a security upgrade" or something like that..what's the security issue then?

Or is this manipulation by fear? - christ..I'm starting to sound like David Icke LOL!

More information about the issue will be available on Monday. We do recommend you upgrade.

no security issue, just a way to bump up downloads from download.com, they want to pass Ad-aware in weekly downloads, and they want to pass Morpheus' 131 Million downloads and Kazaa' 375 Million downloads is all :) hahaha

thanks guys. A balanced response - one from each end of the spectrum, with a bit of intrigue thrown in.. can't wait till monday
bfg

What? its true. lmao

they didn't tell the security issue now, because they had to take time to think of something to call a security issue, they prob made a security issue up! hahaha

one more thing, have you seen the way Download.com advertise LimeWire too? God

You keep that in mind when Monday roles around.

In the meantime, I'd highly recommend that all users upgrade to a version of 4.8 or 4.0.10 for Mac Classic users. We are not messing around here folks.

Thanks
-greg

So why did we have to wait till Monday then? I dont understand this.

So what's going to happen on Monday? v6.0? then Evening comes and v20.0 is released? by next week we'll be on v50.0

lmao. Its called a proxy

Hi Mod - ok I'll be upgrading after Monday. In the mean time would you suggest I stop using Limewire for my own sake?

I had trouble with a java upgrade when moving upto the version of LW I'm running now -4.6. I think some how Java 1.3 and 1.5 got minced together... I know that this would not apply this time since I have the latest java and it's sorted now - but you're taking to a person who's watch does mysterious things unless I wear it on my wrist in a special way, lol - so I'm kinda cautious about changing things without good reason.

Java 1.3 is obsolete. The newest versions of LW were designed using Java 1.4.x for a start. So I can verify that obsolete versions of Java can cause problems. By the way, despite the site might say version 4.6 now it's actually 4.8.1 Unless you downlded your version a week ago or there-abouts.

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Thanks. Good job they had the foresight to make it opensource code.