I downloaded a program yesterday called WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL from a site numbered 65 100 210 216 (3s) I think. It downloaded slowly but compltely BUT when I went to open it I found it was not that program at all but instead a sexually oriented series of web links (international to boot) which deposited a german sex website link into my tool bar in windows. It is in my windows dial up file.
I cannot get rid of this link, I got rid of all of the other unwanted junk but I still do NOT have my desired program.
Be aware of this download site. and I hope limewire is aware of it too and can do something about it. Can anyone help me get rid of this unwanted link? How do I procede?
Thanks,
David K

Peerless, you are right in all of your assumptions. I am new to limewire (very new) but I learned a lesson here. I will be more sensible in the future.
But I still have this german link to sex sites on my toolbar in windows (lower right hand corner of screen) How do I lose that? No matter what I do I get some message about can't delete it because a disk may be full. Is there a work around to get rid of pesky files?
Thanks for your comments and I would appreciate any other help you can give me.

The file must be running in the backround. Can possibly be Worm or virus...

peerless... thanks for the advice. Not worried about wife seeing site since she rarely uses her computer let alone mine. She is a writer who prefers yellow paper and a flair. Hardly my worry. I am worried about having my computer invaded...a violation from a proprietary standpoint. How dare they!! I know this is naive but it really ****** me off.
I will use your advice to good advantage and thanks.

evilmegaman... if it is a virus, norton can't seem to find it and sqaush it. I have no idea what to do about a worm. never had one before. peerless gave me some leads on how to get the program out of there so I will proceded that way. Thanks for the input.
actortax

the lesson you learn is

STOP STEALING.

I personally don't use limewire and it is permanently not allowed on my computer anymore. My young son was downloading songs and some sick @#$%& uploaded kiddy porn. I am now contacting the police about it. I don't think limewire would want to be known to have this crap distributed on their system. The names of the files where not cute, they said exactly what it was Illegal porn. If the adminstrators could do anything about finding out who sent it, I would be grateful. Whoever would take these pictures in the first place should be locked up and the key thrown away.

This is a big problem BUT this is NOT a Limewire issue, rather this occured due to unscrupulous folks using the Gnutella network... Limewire is just a program on your PC using a network shared by many different programs... the results you got were due to the acts of folks other than the Limewire developers... I have had the same effects occur to me with several other programs on the same network. Should you choose you can filter some of this stuff out by selecting Tools / Options / Filters / Keywords and checking the box marked FILTER ADULT CONTENT. Again Limewire is a tool used to share files on a network that is will continue to live without it.

Hi,

I make no gurantees but...

For the 'tool bar' item try the following:
1.On the Windows Taskbar select the 'Start' button.
2.Next Select the 'Run' option.
3.In the box enter msconfig
4.Select the 'OK' Button.
5.Click on the 'Startup' tab.
6. Here is where you are sort of of your own. You need to look for an item that looks suspicious and then un-check the box. Write down the name incase you need to re-select it later.
7. Reboot your machine and see if the icon still appears.

I am not too sure of what your other symptoms are.
If you have a Desktop Item that you cannot delete try dragging it into the trash can. Then select empty on the trash can.

You mentioned an item placed in your dial up file. If you could describe this a little better I might be able to help.

Good Luck!

Ken

Couple of points here. Noone can upload to you, you have to click on the file and download it. How old is your son? If he's too young to know what those files with the sick name's were, then he shouldn't have been unsupervised on the net. Sorry.
Also, if the songs he was downloading are copyrighted, you do know that is stealing, and also illegal.
No, I don't condone kiddie porn. I just can't handle people who don't have the common sense to use the internet wisely and try to blame software for their lack of it.