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[warmonger]

Frostwire is honorable and honest,something Limewire is not. Limewire claims not to spy on users. NOT! Limewire oneline AND offline installers both install adware"limewire". When the adware is removed Limewire immediatly uninstalls itself. LMAO. Frostwire on the otherhand has no spyware or tracking cookies associated with the installer. Also Frostwire automatically halts corrupted file downloads, something that Limewire has yet to figure out.

[et voilà]

I don't know what LW version you are using, but as a high end LW user and member of FW team, the things you say about LW are 100% false.

I approve your choice of FW... but LW is as good for now as well (until they filter unlicenced files, that is)

Ciao

[stief]

Just a thread for putting doubtful posts/threads rather than just trashing them.

[warmonger]

What I said in my post is 100% accurate et voila. LW does insert the adware "limewire" in the offline and online installer program. I installed the latest version from Limewire.com the OFFICIAL site. I installed it about 4 times. Each time I ran my anti-spyware scanners(Adaware Personal SE and Yahoo anti-spy) the adware "limewire" popped up. Each time I deleted the adware "limewire", LW automatically uninstalled except for the stub installer in the programs folder.
Conversely Frostwire was run through the same routine as LW and no adware whatsoever was detected. Hence, I stand by my post. Why would I lie about it? Check it out et voila! Follow the same routine, use the same scanners. If you come up with a different result I will gladly retract my statements about LW.

[ultracross]

LimeWire does not contain anything of that sort. I myself know this as a fact, I have seen the code myself. I am also a developer for FrostWire so I can attest to that fact since I work with the codebase frequently.

If your Spyware/Adware detects this in LimeWire but not FrostWire, then I can assume that your "Yahoo Anti-Spy" or whatever is not correctly identifing malware.

One reason you may see LimeWire being detected but not FrostWire:

Some (bad or crappy) Spyware/Adware detection programs assume any program that sets the "magnet:" protocol in your registry is Spyware/Adaware and will associate any program the protocol links to with it.

The reason FrostWire is not detected (i assume by Yahoo! Anti-Spy) is because *I* have not enabled the magnet protocol support in FrostWire (because I have not found a way to correctly enable support for it yet). And once I do enable it, Yahoo! Anti-Spy will probably detect FrostWire ALSO as containing Adware/Spyware.

Yahoo! Anti-Spy (i assume) WRONGLY detects the magnet protocol as being associated with Adware/Spyware/Malware.

My personal advice: Drop Yahoo! Anti-Spy immediately as it gives out false positives that are not reliable. The only Adware/Spyware detect I trust and use is Ad-Aware SE personal. Its the only program you will need to detect such things. And it rarely ever has false positives. They also correctly identify such things and do not wrongly associate the magnet protocol.

Once again, LimeWire nor FrostWire contain any Adware, Spyware, Malware, Viruses, Trojans or any bundle software.

Regards,

ultracross (aka alkalineX)
FrostWire Developer

[warmonger]

Thanx for the heads up! I stand corrected.And I will folow your advice. Am discontinueing use of the SBC/Yahoo anti-spyware as of now and will use the ADAWARE Personal SE from now on. But I still prefer Frostwire over Limewire as it is easier to use and more reliable. The following are the progams i use for security: ADAWARE PERSONAL SE,COMPUTER ASSOCIATES ANTI-VIRUS,THE CLEANER PRO,FOXIE(firewall that sits low on the kernel and is not detected by MS XP as a firewall), and SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY. In your opinion is this a sufficient security setup? I ask as a computer newbie and internet novice(I've only had a computer since July '05)

[ultracross]

IMO, the best setup would be to use a hardware NAT router as your firewall; Anti-Virus such as AVG or Avast. And a Spyware/Adware detector such as Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Personal

My personal advice is to not use multiple programs that perform the same function. (And some do not even do that very well.)

But the ones i just recommended all have good credibility and should be all you will ever need. (Be sure to keep them up-to-date too. )

[hornet777]

I would add that the most important investment is to continually educate yourself about the threats that exist and keep abreast of the preventative measures there are available. If you are filesharing on XP, so much the more so. There are numerous resources at your disposal.