true...true...stief; good point. I actually didn't like the idea of giving money to that site instead of contributing directly to LimeWire-- an open-source project. I've been looking at this stuff all night and was feeling a little cynical.

But one other thing I thought of earlier (when I was less cynical) was that I noticed in the "imusicsearch" site was that in the members area they had links to free utilities, (i.e. Ad-aware and Spybot). At first that bothered me, since they were in the paid members only area, but then I figured that some people could probably benefit from the knowledge.

So if anyone out there coming across this thread in the future who don't what those two programs are then they might want to take a look at those. (Not the subscription site's "bonus" software, mind you, but the utilities.)

Or look here...major geeks support forums.
which offers extensive removal (and prevention) instructions.