It does appear that the usability of LimeWire is seriously compromised
by the action of virus spawn bots on Gnutella.
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I used to run LimeWire Pro, but had so much trouble with this happening
today that I decided to clear the system out completely just in case I had
unwittingly had something placed on my system which always connected
me with a specific peer churning out this stuff.
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I removed all (detectable) traces of LimeWire from my drives, using as
thorough a Finder search as possible. I then downloaded LimeWire Basic
for a fresh start. After installation and setting up, the problem remains.
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LimeWire has thus become UNUSABLE ! Every search, in every category,
returns dozens of 100-115kB zip files containing "setup.exe". Luckily, I'm
on a G4 Mac so these things don't bother me, but I feel great sympathy
for PC users who may have inadvertently opened this kind of c**p.
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Obviously, you can filter ".exe" files but you CAN'T filter ".zip", when
99% of what you're genuinely searching is likely to be zipped.
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It is a great shame that the P2P concept has become rendered untenable
by the actions of a few perverted minds.

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qumrunner