Thread: limewire let me download viruses
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Old August 11th, 2009
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What LW 5.2 does is it stops commonly known spammed virus files because it knows the download hash of such files; it deletes such files at moment of download completion. However, it does not have an anti-virus built into it. Nor does it protect you from 'all' viruses.
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