I still can�t believe the world is so full of computer morons. Virus threats to our computers can only be placed on the shoulders of two people, those who create them and those who inadvertently spread the virus, namely the MORON! Without the moron, those social inept beak necks who create virus for no other reason that to spread ill will to others, would have a greater difficulty spreading their crap over the internet.

It would seem LIMEWIRE is not immune to the depredation of MORONS. The uses of any anti virus program escapes them completely, as they are wholly unaware of the devastating affect they have on the P2P community. Unable to see the world past the end of their nose, they only see the number of files they have to share and pat themselves on the back for a job well done, thinking they have helped the P2P community. Never do they look at the content of the files lurking in the their shared folder, never seeing the growing number of ZIP files all the same size, or how they got there.

Are you a MORON? Of course not�Your reading this forum, learning to defend yourself from the MORON, learning how not to be a MORON.

LESSON 1
Download anti virus software, free is a good price and there are many great programs out there.
This link will get you what I think to be the best of the best and it�s FREE! AVG anti virus http://www.grisoft.com

LESSON 2
Use the anti virus program! Scan every file you download to your computer before you open it!!!! And if your anti virus software finds a virus, don�t bother fixing it, just delete the damn thing and keep your system clean

Sorry for the rant, but I feel that Morons are taking over the world, and you can�t blame bad genes for being a lazy thinker. It�s time for these people to pull their head from their asses and get with the program or turn in their drivers license and stop propagating!

im a fan and a user of avg!

another good app is a spyware/adware removal tool called ad-aware by lavasoft: http://www.lavasoft.com/

I am a beginner, but I SCAN, SCAN,SCAN, and I still find 90% of the files I download are virused, corrupted, or unknown format.......what is going on?

Ignore files less than 2,000 KB (2 MB) as most are either spam or virus spam. Don't get confused between KB & MB. Start using your Junk filter. It's a dynamic learning filter. For viruses it does take a lot of persistence but it will start to filter them out. WARNING: Viruses on network you should be aware of! (click on link) Clicking the top of the size column will arrange search results by size. Double-clicking this will arrange them with the largest at the top.

LOR ........thank you, have tried your suggestions, on my own, and multiplied, now getting folder EMPTY, so weary, so tired...but, will trudge on with help from the more experienced......thanx

chillie
im sure with practice your folders will be full and not a virus in sight,
good lluck with them

I couldnt agree with you more
brimest0ne,why dont these irresponsible morons check whats in there shared file?,anything i download that turns out to be virus ridden or just plain cr** gets deleted straight away.

Way to go Brimstone! Everything you said was true.

I swear 90+% of files I have downloaded in the last two weeks are infected, and when you do a search, there are hundreds of morons with the same file, and they are all sharing it.

Using a decent AV program is a no-brainer.....ooops, that's the problem isn't it? They have no brain, or they don't use it.

Norton Antivirus catches each and every one of these infected files before Limewire is even finished with them. How do people live without an antivirus program? Hell, like you said, there are good free ones out there, so not having one is just stupid.

But you know, the world is over run with those kinds of people. If all the idiots were to disappear tomorrow, it would be like waking up in North Dakota. Your nearest neighbor would be miles away, haha.

Did you notice Bush got re-elected? I rest my case.

Ok, yes you are right, i have been using Limewire since version 3.something. Anyway, these are the sizes of files you DONT download, unless you are 100% sure that they are the file u want.

Don't download files that-

-Are 857.1kb, 875.1kb, 15.5kb or around that, unless they are pictures or documents, stay away form zips etc which are this size
-Files rarely ever are named exactly what u search unless u see the file and search the name from what u see, and even this is rare, most files under 2mb that show exactly what u searched, are infected.
-THIS IS IMPORTANT- Recently there have been a load of files on Limewire that say (Sponsored Result)...once again...infected stay, away

That's all i need to say ok cya!

When looking for music:

Files that have (*) after the filename, * being a number, in most cases are bad files. Sometimes (*) in front, but often just the number of the song on CD.

Most bad MP3-files are 128 kbps, higher bitrate tends to be clean, maybe because of longer downloadtime. The misfit likes their virus to be spread fast.

When looking for a popular song. Never search for both Artist and songname at the same time. Tends to bring up a lot of bad results