Hmmm. This a tough one. You've said the necessary, Jack, but I think it's really a language problem. I haven't watched Airplane for a while, so excuse me if my reply is in archaic acronymic RANT.

Maybe ViRuS eRrOr is a switcher? Perhaps this should be the answer:
"WTF MUTHA! U WAN free MP3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! APppLY crowbar TO F'N TUNES establishment--MUCHO MUSAKO! GET A WINDOWS BOXANDSHUV THE pissass APPLE west coat FAGGY M ,FNA,FGFKQHJ[I."

[go to your music store and buy CD's should be the answer]. As for how to "get rid of this pain in the neck?", that's too tempting and KathW is right. The "they all say . . .these people want me to go insane" is more of a problem. Perhaps ViRuS eRrOr thinks that the info strings are like chat lines and thinks there are malicious people who are typing that answer in real time. That may explain thinking getting emotional at a screen will get a human response, and would be very understandable. I would be mad (angry, not nuts) too. The answer that people turn off their computers, refuse connections, stop sharing files/connections or use them to do whatever they want is not likely to be a satisfactory answer. Hosts disconnect--info message should say "search again." Perhaps an answer that confirms a conspiracy theory would work. How about:

"U thnk I SharRE MY TUNES JUST FOR U ASSWIPESCUMSUCK? I IS pHRAcking YOUR BOX TO sCore yurTunES MAN so OPEN WIDEEEE sucka!"

Sorry--just having fun, as I'm sure virus error is just having fun with a little hyperbole too. An additional answer to the "could not download" problem is that 2.9.5 revealed some problem with the download.dat file getting corrupted in the incomplete folder, so trashing the contents of the incomplete folder and sadly starting again is necessary. 2.9.7 also fixes some mac problems, so another download may help. Still, all these answers depend on understanding that Limewire is a PROJECT, depends on a good-faith community, and is still under construction.