There are no more LimeShop bundled app in LimeWire 3.8, 3.9 and now 4.0. All what is installed is a "Limeshop" pane which is just a static local HTML page, which is renamed simply "Shopping since 3.9.9. This is exactly as if you pointed your browser to visit the URL of the "Shopping" link on the LimeWire web site.
This is not spyware, only advertizing, which is absent from the Pro version. The installer is clean and the LimeWire website does not lie.
If you are still not convinced run Ad-Aware or Spy-Sweeper (which you can use to remove the now dead local LimeShop tool, which was effectively adding a link in your browser but was not a spyware monitoring your online activities and was never changing your search page or diverting your from the page you wanted to visit; so LimeShop was a adware which shown some additional ads, but was not a spyware; two years ago LimeWire has broken its contract with Cydoor which was a spyware causing problems, and developed LimeShop instead to offer only ads; with the success of LimeWire, even LimeShop is no longer necessary and is no more bundled, even with LimeWire Basic). |