YES limewire got virus into my computer and it took me a LOT of effort to fix it at last so I strongly disencourage the use of limewire I didn't have problem uninstalling limewire..so perhaps you could try deleting any file with associations to limewire. Deleting it's files will prevent it from loading. There may be times when the files can't be deleted, so what you could do is restart your computer in safe mode and delete them I don't know if it'll work but after I uninstalled limewire my computer is working beautifully - except for a few hangs / freezes at times