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Old September 30th, 2008
swampbat swampbat is offline
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Default Why not filter the obvious trojans/virii???

Why can't Limewire filter the obvious? No matter what search term you enter, there will always be at least 3 returns, one an MP3 file of 5,611Kb, another of 3,411Kb and a Zip file of 96kb. Try it, type anything, any random letters into the search and it will show up as an mp3.

If you aren't paying attention and tag any of these files, they are all infected with various trojans, mostly smitfraud variants.

Since the people doing this always show 4 stars and t3 or greater, as well as 50+ sources, they probably get downloaded a lot. Now, unless LimeWire themselves are doing this, some users have found a way to take a live search term and rename their trojan to that on the fly. I suggest limewire simply because it's *always* the 1st item found on any search.

It does no good to tag them a junk, they show up anyway. The junk filters seem to miss these files every time... wonder how that happens???
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