Limewire, =viruses? Options

[whoahitznikki]

alrighty. so i'm going boy band crazy right now and i'm really wanting to get n'sync, bsb, spice girls, etc. songs!!! i haven't used limewire before (i've been getting all my songs on different sites online), and i was wondering if it's a good idea to download it? i just bought a new computer and i don't want to screw it up.

[illriginal]

I'm pretty sure you're just as susceptible uploading through torrents. It's pretty easy for internet providers to try to interfere with your illegal activities by capping you if you're uploading/downloading too much through torrents.

What do you mean by "capping"? Capping is only a limitation of speed/bandwidth. And if that was the case, then call in as an irate customer, and demand that they bump up the decibels on both upstream and downstream or you'll simply close the account and go with their competitors service.

Plus torrents are a thing of the past. Private newsgroups and private blogs are the best, download truly at 8mbps+. In my case sometimes I hit 18mbps (18,000kbps) on private newsgroups.

[*paperplane*]

That is what I mean by capping, and I don't know if it's a universal issue, but comcast does it and more than likely would not raise it because of the torrent thing (I'd site what I mean, but the search function doesn't work on the site where I found the article). Saying you'll change to another service is great and all if there are in fact other options, but in a lot of places there aren't.

[illriginal]

That is what I mean by capping, and I don't know if it's a universal issue, but comcast does it and more than likely would not raise it because of the torrent thing (I'd site what I mean, but the search function doesn't work on the site where I found the article). Saying you'll change to another service is great and all if there are in fact other options, but in a lot of places there aren't.

Hmmm... funny I use comcast. I noticed I was only gettin 5mbps. I called them, told them I have latency issues and I need to have the upstream/downstream decibels bumped up. They say they couldn't, I asked to speak to a tier 2 technician. Told the technician they must raise the bandwidth or I'm closing the account (which consist of On demand/HD channels and internet) and switching to Bellsouth (durin that time). That did the trick and bumped up the cap, way over the normal residential cap.

[*paperplane*]

Well, I'm on school internet, where I haven't had a problem yet but have absolutely not control over anything. I'll try that if I run into a problem at home, though. Not that threatening to switch to Bellsouth has made them sort out our phone issues yet, but whatever.

[clarity]

Lmao the only way your gonna get viruses on Limewire is if you download pr0n, applications, and wmas.

MP3 for me have been perfectly fine for 4-5 years now.

[illriginal]

You guys should just get soulseek.. you can easily avoid headaches and not worry about file types and malicious files -.-

[mipadi]

Last semester I built my own file sharing software. It was awesome -- fully distributed, so there was no central server, and encrypted with 128-bit encryption. It used a combination of public key encryption and symmetric key encryption, like SSH. I used it for research on distributed networking protocols, but some people actually used it for "real" purposes. We never completely finished it, but source code is available.

[synatribe]

just use bit torrent. it's safer in terms of not getting viruses. most of the torrent files comes with comments people leave behind, and they usually tell others not to download it if it's a fake file or not. limewire is so 2005 mang.

torrents are so slow... I use limwire for music and torrents for movies, programs etc, oo and torrents have more viruses than limewire just to let you know, but again your antivirus system can recognize pefectly normal files as viruses, like keygens :]

[Just_Dream]

torrents are so slow... I use limwire for music and torrents for movies, programs etc, oo and torrents have more viruses than limewire just to let you know, but again your antivirus system can recognize pefectly normal files as viruses, like keygens :]

Well for torrents, depends on what you're downloading. If you're downloading pr0n or from some shady website, then that's pretty much the risk you'd be taking on yourself.


Nicki - we don't get "capped" or whatever it is. And well, from all the torrents that my bf and I have d/led, we haven't gotten a virus from any yet. But I know just from songs d/led form limewire, there was a virus that was d/led as well with the song -- well we didn't d/l the song, more like his brother did when we weren't home, lol. So really it depends on a case-by-case basis, I guess.

But I'm going to say this one last time: It's not even that difficult to find any song that you need want through DDLs (direct downloads), as long as you know where to look. And the speeds can be even faster as well.