Please help to clear this up for me... Reports of LimeWire attracting viruses ?
 

Hi all,
I recently whent to download limewire from a site that i trust etc, but in the comment part some one said go to youtube and search for the following P2P Computer Security Risk

Could some one please take a look and tell me what you think?
They basicly show you some fbi agent or sumit, get a brand new pc from the box, set it up and conect to the internet, then installed Limewire along with a few torrent programs.They left his pc on , then with in 6days of not touching his pc or shareing any files etc he had 538 spyware etc just for leaving his pc on and conected to limewire.it included a password cracker whitch was so-called installed through installin Limewire, one of these is called : PMinstall.bde, and he gose on saying he dont know what it is, and he is ment to be a computer frensic.


so plse cud one of u pros take a look and let me know what you think and is it sumthin to be worried about?

cheers,
jme.

I wonder if the same nut case will do a sequel ???
(And a sequel could even have a bit of what them science-headed types call CONTROL)

Just take a new and 'clean' PC with a freshly formatted hard drive...
Install Windows (2000 Pro, any XP or any Vista)...
Establish your internet connection.
Leave it on and connected for 6 days.

:blink:

No cheating now !!!
You must not install anything else. (But, of course, for security, <cough> <cough> you may allow any and all Microsoft auto updates.)
I should imagine that having LimeWire running actually reduced the possible full total of viruses 'planted' due simply to the fact that LimeWire would have been consuming enough bandwidth to limit access to some of the 'bad guys' !

Without a clear understanding of precisely what software was installed, what security and configuration settings were in place and what the user account status was...
The example you refer to is bullsh¡t.
It ain't science.
Life sure can be confusing when such forces try to confuse, eh ?

i thought they wer just trying to scare us !!!!

I new it wud be bull sh*t lol.

But what about the socalled spyware that he said was installed through installing limewire lol.
O well, it just made me stop n think for a while then lol.