I'm new here and wanted to download LimeWire. Everybody tells me it's filled with viruses and stuff and I just spent the last couple of hours browsing this forum before I posted and my head friggen hurts. It seems all very complicated to just protect my computer while using LW... I mainly want to use it for music, but with all the complications of searching through these forums for what precautions I should take make it hard and doesn't seem like it's worth it. But I want to badly.

Can someone tell me the basic do's and dont's for LimeWire, like blocking .wmv files and .jpg... Like what programs I should download. So far I downloaded Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware, ClamWin, Privoxy and that's it.

I've gotten my computers messed up so much in the past because of things like Shareaza and etc. and had to let a family relative who has in-depth knowledge about computers reformat it a couple times and had to start from scratch redownloading/putting all my files back but the same thing happens to me. So yeah, I finally decided to be smart this time and protect my computer.