Weird. Let's try sidestepping the problem entirely by using a different gnutella program.
Get this copy of BearShare and try it out for a few days.

i am writing to let you know how have gone on the bearshare thread is full of spyware and the problem i am haveing with lw is a bot it seems i downloaded frosty the snowman and it is a copy of lw and this is wea are where all the trouble is comming fromthere is load of people latched on to my pc and they are all in the states and i can get rid of it i have tried everything do you have any advise as to what software to get so it will rid this thing forever hope you can help me ladyvel

windows. xp 2 and limewire 4.14.10 yeah and its all going well .