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limewire safe?
okay so i just downloaded limewire to get some free music. but i have herd some rumers about like viruses coming from limewire..
is limewire vary unsafe?
can u get viruses from it?
if so is there a way to avoid them?
please helppp
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If you're only downloading music files, you're very safe. If you're going out to pirate Photoshop, you're not very safe.
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All I can say (speaking from experience):
It crashed my entire computer.
And there's really no way to avoid it, except not using it at all.
-Laura. (15-f)
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Limewire itself doesn't contain viruses, but you can get them from the network. You can avoid it by not being stupid. A song is never under 1MB, a video is never under 10MB. Never download a file with the ".exe" or ".vbs" extension.
Examples:
1 300MB HeroesS01E01.mpg
2 200KB LostS01E01.vbs
3 4MB Yesterday_Beatles.ogg
4 20MB Home_video_john.avi
5 1023KB the_onion_router.exe
6 2MB trance_techno_electronica_dance.mp3.exe
Answers:
-1 Safe, mpg is a video format and an average tv episode is 300MB
-2 Unsafe, a movie is never 200KB and vbs is a program
-3 Safe, 4MB is possible for audio, and ogg is an audio format
-4 Probably safe, 20MB is a bit small for a video. Avi is a video format, but there are weaknesses in some programs that can be exploited.
-5 Probably unsafe, the onion router is an actual program, but this file is too small. Always download from the site if possible.
-6 Unsafe. It ends in exe. Never be tricked by .mp3.exe(or anything.exe), only the last extension matters.
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Considering it is a file sharing program, you are getting files from a stranger and downloading it to your own computer.
Any program like that has risks of downloading viruses.
How to avoid them? Have a good anti virus program and hope you don't download something it doesn't know to protect against.
ygs-29/f
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