Lime Wire Disappears

[Darryl's Account]

After purchasing and installing Lime Wire Pro, something happens, and the program and all files are removed from my PC. I was running Spybot and Adaware and thought that one of them may have been causing this, but I have discontined running both programs and Lime Wire Pro is still removed. It is totally uninstalled. The shortcut reamains on my desktop, but cannot find the program. I have to reinstall almost every time that I want to use this program.

Darryl

[ukbobboy01]

Darryl's Account

I have used Spybot and Adaware SE with LW for over two years now and they have never, ever attacked, deleted or changed any part of LW. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that these two well respected and used anti-spyware apps are the cause of your problem.

Tell me, are you a member of AOL and do you use their anti-spyware app?


UK Bob

[Darryl's Account]

Yes, I am a member of AOL, but do not use much. I use Roadrunner and Firefox. I was using Spybot and Adaware.

Darryl

[Darryl's Account]

I do not use anyother anti-spyware from AOL or anyone else. I agree that Adaware are Spybot should be causing a problem. But I stopped using just to test it, and Lime Wire still was uninstalled. No trace of it except the shortcut on my Desktop. Very strange indeed. Is there any log that can be checked to see what is going on?

Darryl

[Darryl's Account]

Here is a log of errors when trying to launch from my Desktop Shortcut:


LimeWire version 4.12.6 Pro
Java version 1.5.0_03 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Windows XP v. 5.1 on x86
Free/total memory: 3269224/4128768

com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader$StartupFailed Exception: invalid update.ver
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.sanityCheck(G UILoader.java:278)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.load(GUILoade r.java:48)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Main.java:44)

STARTUP ERROR!

-- listing properties --
WINDOW_Y=0
WINDOW_X=0
PORT=3176
TOTAL_CONNECTION_TIME=96034274
RUN_ON_STARTUP=false
UPDATE_DELAY=252000020
UPDATE_GIVEUP_FACTOR=49
FILTER_HASH_QUERIES=true
INSTALLED=true
UI_LIBRARY_TREE_DIVIDER_LOCATION=122
AVERAGE_UPTIME=13929
TOTAL_UPTIME=153219
MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=49
MIN_CONNECT_TIME=7
CONTENT_AUTHORITIES=fserv1.limewire.com:10000
COUNTRY=
LAST_SHUTDOWN_TIME=1158878746472
APP_WIDTH=1024
SESSIONS=11
UPLOAD_SPEED=75
CLEAR_DOWNLOAD=true
LAST_ACCEPTABLE_BUG_VERSION=4.12.5
DOWNLOAD_SPEED=85
FRACTIONAL_UPTIME=0.04297168
UPDATE_RETRY_DELAY=1800001
CONNECTION_SPEED=350
LAST_EXPIRE_TIME=1158763728825
TOTAL_CONNECTIONS=14
DIRECTORY_FOR_SAVING_FILES=C:\Documents and Settings\Darryl\Shared
MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=326
UPDATE_DOWNLOAD_DELAY=14400001
RUN_ONCE=true
AVERAGE_CONNECTION_TIME=6859591
APP_HEIGHT=738
EVER_SUPERNODE_CAPABLE=true
EVIL_HOSTS=Bear
MAX_SIM_DOWNLOAD=8
DIRECTORIES_TO_SEARCH_FOR_FILES=C:\Documents and Settings\Darryl\Shar...
LAST_GWEBCACHE_FETCH_TIME=1159456583660
UNSET_FIREWALLED_FROM_CONNECTBACK=true
EVER_ACCEPTED_INCOMING=true
CLIENT_ID=7ADA8E53B48EF1D46FBD0CCCA3262700
FLUSH_DELAY_TIME=25
CONTENT_MANAGEMENT_ACTIVE=true
IDLE_CONNECTIONS=2



FILES IN CURRENT DIRECTORY:
C:\Program Files\LimeWire\clink.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028800576
SIZE: 307949

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\commons-httpclient.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028801529
SIZE: 459988

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\commons-logging.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028802029
SIZE: 59154

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\commons-net.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028802966
SIZE: 355370

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\daap.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028803857
SIZE: 388504

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\GenericWindowsUtils.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028774794
SIZE: 12279

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\i18n.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028804154
SIZE: 25678

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\icu4j.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028805107
SIZE: 741440

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\id3v2.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028805732
SIZE: 94430

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jcraft.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028806357
SIZE: 136693

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jl011.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028807060
SIZE: 255016

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jmdns.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028807607
SIZE: 69306

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.exe
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028775326
SIZE: 159744

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028790841
SIZE: 7117609

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire20.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028774904
SIZE: 40960

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\log4j.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028808763
SIZE: 677952

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\looks.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028809857
SIZE: 630634

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\MessagesBundles.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028793857
SIZE: 2951044

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\mp3sp14.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028810294
SIZE: 40064

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\ProgressTabs.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028799685
SIZE: 5786

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\themes.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028810685
SIZE: 741477

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\tritonus.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028811372
SIZE: 152711

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\WindowsFirewall.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028774935
SIZE: 61440

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\WindowsV5PlusUtils.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156028775044
SIZE: 12808

Any Help?

Darryl

[ukbobboy01]

Darryl's Account

Most AOL users have, as part of their installation, AOL's own anti-spyware application, which I believe is a clone or version of Pest Patrol. This anti-spyware app, which starts up every time you switch on or reboot your PC, sees LW as spyware and always (without fail) deletes LimeWire.exe.

Now, you say that you do not have any other anti-spyware app but I bet you if you check either Task Manager or your start-up folder you will find AOL's anti-spyware app, you have to disable this (i.e. prevent it from starting-up/running) before you will be able to use LW properly.

Please note, every AOL user that visits this forum complains about the same problem, that is how I was able to guess that you were an AOL user without you saying so in your first post.

Also, I have a friend who uses AOL, but not LW, he told me about AOLs anti-spyware app is automatically installed when you first run the AOL disk.

Find that app and disable it.

Good hunting


UK Bob

[Darryl's Account]

I am using CA PestPatrol as part of the EZ-Armour software provided by RoadRunner. I used the Quarratine options to restore LimeWire, and will see if this solves my problem. Thanks for the lead on this anti-spyware program.

Darryl

[Lord of the Rings]

After that, dump pestpatrol. It simply doesn't work side by side with LW. Search pest patrol or pestpatrol on the forums & you'll start to understand what I mean. PP simply considers all p2p programs to be spyware no matter whether they have it or not. That's a poor design implementation of the program. But for everything else PP is a good program. Just they (the designers) basically stick their fingers up at p2p programs!!!! And say "you're dead!!!"

[Lord of the Rings]

BTW you will need to reinstall LW. Hopefully PP hasn't done any damage to Java also. After all, LW is 90+% designed in Java.

Any other problems, try steps 1, 2, 3 & 5 here Fixes for Limewire