Personnally I hate the idea of spyware - but I through a 6Gb drive in a system and loaded up a few of these monsters.

Those background processes and bandwidth usage add up.

Since Limewire is GPL - someone went in and did a sanitized version called Clean LimeWire - which is what I use currently.

you can try going to www.cleanlimewire.com

It will most likely redirect you - maybe to http://cleanlimewire.jaha.dk/index.html

Give it a shot.