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Limewire on a macbook
Alright, for christmas i just got the white MacBook. i was wondering if its true that its basically impossibal to get a viuris (spelling?) on it. and if i should get limewire since my mom gets mad that i spend alot of money on her itunes account.
*does limewire slow down your macbook ALOT?
*do you think it is worth it?
*have you personally, or has a friend had a problem with his/her macbook from limewire?
(OR FROSTWIRE!!!!)
thank you!
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Viruses usually only work for one operating system (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc.). Since not that many people use Macs, only a few people have bothered to create viruses for them. Macs are not inherently *immune* to viruses, though, and it's possible that someone could create a virus in the future.
Downloading music off of Limewire is almost always illegal. Peerguardian will help prevent you from getting caught. However, it does this by blocking 65% of the entire Internet based on extremely strict and often ridiculous criteria. Chances are that you are blocked by it, either because the blacklist's bogon list is way out of date or your ISP can be connected to the RIAA in six degrees or less. The people who maintain the Peerguardian blacklists are paranoid idiots. Do not use it.
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A word of warning.
Macs do not get viruses that often. This is true. The problem is, on the flip side, that if you get a virus you can't do nearly as much about it.
Also, corrupted files don't have to be viruses to screw with a computer, so download with caution.
Something else you want to keep in mind. It is far easier to protect a PC against problems other than viruses. Problems like having your IP recorded when you download a song from a computer run by anti piracy groups. You are a good bit more exposed.
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Download this. Peer guardian automatically blocks both incoming and outgoing to a large list of IP addresses known to be malicious. It can help keep you safe, but nothing is foolproof, and limewire is alot harder to guard than other programs that work a different way.
If you don't already, when you download anything, move it to a different folder, completely outside of your limewire folder. Any computer you connect to that is anti P2P can at the very least scan your limewire folder, and sharing files is alot more common way to get caught. Set it so that you have a small number of max uploads and move things out of your folder so that no one can get any files off your computer.
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