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Old January 31st, 2008
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Question Please help to clear this up for me... Reports of LimeWire attracting viruses ?

Hi all,
I recently whent to download limewire from a site that i trust etc, but in the comment part some one said go to youtube and search for the following P2P Computer Security Risk

Could some one please take a look and tell me what you think?
They basicly show you some fbi agent or sumit, get a brand new pc from the box, set it up and conect to the internet, then installed Limewire along with a few torrent programs.They left his pc on , then with in 6days of not touching his pc or shareing any files etc he had 538 spyware etc just for leaving his pc on and conected to limewire.it included a password cracker whitch was so-called installed through installin Limewire, one of these is called : PMinstall.bde, and he gose on saying he dont know what it is, and he is ment to be a computer frensic.


so plse cud one of u pros take a look and let me know what you think and is it sumthin to be worried about?

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jme.
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