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Old October 4th, 2005
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Some antispyware tools incorrectly report Limewire as a spyware, and then delete ALL files contained in the Limewire installation directory, including your OWN files...
There's nothing LimeWire can do. Be cautious with suh malicious tools that don't even take the preventive measures to ask you what to do with files contained in a directory. Such antispyware that delete all files in a folder, whatever they are, should better be replaced. There are better antispywares, that are more up to date.

It's true that VERY OLD versions of precompiled Limewire installers (before Limewire v2, several major versions have been released since that long time) bundled some adwares that could be considered spywares (the old "LimeShop" program, and some desktop shortcuts, all of them were always ABSENT of the open-source version). This is no longer true since years now, and LimeWire does no more support these outdated versions. And you can use the precompiled version with confidence.

Deleting those bundled softwares would be OK, but deleting LimeWire just because of its name, not even verifying its version, really demonstrates that your antispyware is outdated, and dangerous to use. Replace it with something else. There are great antispywares some of them free of charge or even open-sourced, and none of them consider LimeWire (v2 and more) as spyware. With these tools, you can also cleanup old non-supported versions of Limewire without altering your own existing files.

One recommandation: don't store your downloaded and shared files in the LimeWire program installation directory, and don't install LimeWire in your home directory. Use your home directory (or another independant folder or drive) for these files. You should be able to delete all the Limewire installation directory without deleting any of your precious files.

Note that Limewire is setup by default to create and select the download/shared directory as a subfolder of your user home directory, outside of the program directory.
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