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TheFakeSunRa
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Opinions about Limewire?
#5567303 - 04/28/06 03:41 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I use Soulseek for music but I was thinking about trying Limewire for videos.
From those that knows whaddya think?
Does it have spyware?
Anything lame about it?
Is it good for downloading vids?
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#5567354 - 04/28/06 04:01 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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No spyware, but it is considered "riskware" because of the possibility of d/l'ing dangerous files. All in all it's not a bad program, just be careful what you d/l with it, but I'm sure you already knew that.
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: Le_Canard]
#5567360 - 04/28/06 04:03 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Limewire is fine. If you only want to DL 1 song or 1 music video use limewire. For everything else use torrents.
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#5567362 - 04/28/06 04:04 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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limewire is a good program. i recommend scanning your files for viruses right after you d/l them though, you probably already knew that, rite?
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: LSD_rules]
#5567369 - 04/28/06 04:06 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm sure you are already using an AV. I hope those are not norton or mcaffee.
I use AVG and have had no problems. For malware use Prestpatrol, ad-aware and spybot.
If you know what you are doing use "hijack this!" and crap cleaner.

Oh, and you can DL zonealarm for free too (firewall). The pro version is worth the cost though.
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: theuser]
#5567493 - 04/28/06 04:40 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Limewire runs along with a java program.Togother they use almost 60-70 megs of ram.
soulseek is by far superior,ask around and you will find out
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#5567676 - 04/28/06 05:32 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I couldn't get limewire to compile properly on my computer, but on my old mac it worked really good.
I only use torrents though nowadays.
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#5567784 - 04/28/06 06:05 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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In terms of point-and-click p2p apps, Limewire is pretty good.
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#5567802 - 04/28/06 06:12 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I find LimeWire is good for new releases and extremely fast downloads. However I use SoulSeek for rare songs I cannot find on LimeWire.
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i too find that limewire is pretty good for quasi-popular stuff; is soulseek still being produced (are there current versions)?
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#5567908 - 04/28/06 06:36 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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limewire is alright, but it seems like recently the amount of files available are goin down... its gettin harder n harder to find songs
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: eligal]
#5567918 - 04/28/06 06:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
eligal said: limewire is alright, but it seems like recently the amount of files available are goin down... its gettin harder n harder to find songs
Porn site owners have flooded it and other p2p/torrent sites with fake .wmv and virus porn.
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: theuser]
#5568032 - 04/28/06 07:10 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thanks yall
Like I said in the OP I use soulseek for music
I'm talking strictly for VIEWING pleasure here
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#5568625 - 04/28/06 09:35 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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In general, no
While Limewire can be dead useful and faster, I prefer something safer like eMule
I've found the vids on Limewire have a less chance of downloading a virus
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#5568664 - 04/28/06 09:46 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I use EMule to download things when I can't find a torrent. Limewire kept messing up on me but I haven't had any problems with EMule.
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: Wysefool]
#5568672 - 04/28/06 09:48 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I ised to use torrents a lot for music but found I get higher sound quality from soulseek
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: Wysefool]
#5568787 - 04/28/06 10:16 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I need to start using torrents
But EMules worked so far
And I enjoy using the two days or so it takes to catch up on some reading or writing
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Ya Emule is fucking slow... Like I said I always try torrents first for everything and for music Soulseek is pretty good, but usually I use torrents for music too.
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Re: Opinions about Limewire? [Re: Wysefool]
#5569264 - 04/29/06 12:21 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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It uses a LOT of memory if you have multiple downloads going. I just checked and it was using 253,000kb of RAM.
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The following file-swappers are confirmed to have spyware or other unwanted parasites bundled into them:
Audiogalaxy Imesh OneMX FreeWire Exeem BitTorrent Ultra FileCroc Kiwi Alpha RockItNet Warez P2P KaZaa (offers a paid version without spyware) Bearshare (offers a paid version without spyware) Xolox (Currently retesting) Morpheus (Older versions only. All third party bundles have been removed from Morpheus as of version 4.9.2. Current versions have an embedded banner ad but install no third party software) Grokster (offers a paid version without spyware) Blubster 2.x aka Piolet (Blubster 2.0 and higher and Piolet are adware and bundle other adware) MediaSeek (MediaSeek Lite from the same company does not bundle any spyware or adware) E-Donkey AKA Overnet (Versions prior to 1.2 available on June 1, '05 bundle adware. 1.2 is clean) Computwin AKA FileNavigator (While it doesn't bundle adware or spyware, this product is itself adware, pops up a full page ad in Internet Explorer upon loading and claims to track computer usage in its license) Ares (Official site offers a "Lite" version without the adware bundles) Various BitTorrent Clients (See warning below about open source clients) Limewire (The most current version of Limewire is reported to include spyware. LimeWire 4.9.28 is clean. Older and newer version may not be.)
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