"What else would let other users take files from your computer?"...do you understand how the Gnutella network operates?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella

(for those people worried about others trying to connect through open ports, some very clever people wrote a pgm called PeerGuardian)

Yes, LW is open source and so are hundreds of others, not just p2p apps. Is it really just like the whole rootkit problem with Sony?:
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/200...al-rights.html
IDFTS!!

As for your 851.7 KB files, if you'd bothered to read the forum or use the search function, you'd know that files of this size are well known for being fakes. LimeWire cannot control what people share, it's up to the user to check out what they download. Would you buy a car just because it looked good from a distance??? If you want to download .zip and .exe files then you take your chances. Don't blame LW for crap that people put up to share. Ever heard of Overpeer??