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Old October 11th, 2005
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Default Re: Accessing files on computers not running file sharing programs

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Originally posted by andysippowitz
Eventually I was able to talk to her; she is not running Limewire or any other file sharing program. She has no idea how her computer became open to the world.
Um ... how did you chat to her? She obviously uses some type of gnutella client or otherwise you wouldn't have been able to browse or chat to her. She probably didn't understand what you meant by p2p program.

But yes, unbelievable that someone would be so careless. The default share location for LW is only the downld folder. So to share any other folder, etc. would have been set by the person themselves. It was said that versions of LW I think from 4.2 to 4.8.0 has a bug where someone "might" be open to access for other parts of their computer. But I've never heard of this happening before. I hope you told them to check exactly what folders they were sharing & remove only those desired to share.

I guess there's a small chance a network might be shared. But ... since you chatted with the person then obviously the mistake is theirs. I guess this also is why people should not downld to their desktop. It sounds like their downld/share folder is used for multiple purposes. They obviously keep private documents in there as well. LW 4.9 allows you to select particular files or folders not to share or to stop sharing via the LW Library window.
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