Have you tried Safe Mode? Maybe some active program is interfering with Explorer and Safe
Mode might let Windows start without it.

In any case you do have a serious problem and you should get somebody to put hands on and fix it.

First let me state that I have a pre-excisting condition known as Paranoid Personality Disorder, therefore I am extremely paranoid about everything that goes on around me, nonetheless through therapy I have been able to lead a rather successful life, last year in my senior year in high school I was looking for some porn (adult) and came across a video that said hot redhead pthc, I did not know what this stood for so having a thing for redheads, i dowloaded it, but it wouldn't let me preview so I cancelled but didn't delete the partial until like two months later when I found out there even was a partial left, then I found out that I was sharing partials. Also just a month ago I was looking for some videos and downloaded like eight at the time none of the titles suggested internet porn to me, but I also did not know that hussyfan was also child porn, my computer downloaded this file extremely quick but since all the videos had similar names I did not watch it after it was dowloaded b/c I just went right by it. I went out of town that week and my roomate used my computer including limewire, he still hadn't purchased his. when i came back I chose this video and as soon as I realized that it was child porn I deleted it, but ever since I have become a mess, I scrub my harddrive daily, I get scared whenever I hear a cop car coming, I have resummed smoking, which I had given up a year prior, now I'm on two and a half packs a day, I need to take a couple of valium pills in order to sleep for three hours each night, I have already had two nervous breakdowns while I was by myself at home, I haven't been abel to have sex with my girlfriend in two weeks, I just keep imagining scenarios where the feds come to my house and take me for 5 years for pocession of cp. I tanked a midterm just yesterday. I have found that people in this forum appear to know their stuff and I am about as ignorant as there can be about technology, It was an accident i didn't mean to download cp, and i didn't notice i left it on my computer for a week,(neither did my roomate), but this brought up the fact that what if someone caught on the the partial left on my parents computer, that said pthc. I can't deal with this anymore, I'M ON THE EDGE OF SANITY, since i live on a third floor i have considered jumping off a couple of times. Sometimes I just wanna turn my self in to the cops and get it over with. What scares me the most is that I will spend next semester as a exchange student in University of Madrid and I will be away from my parents, and if somebody comes looking for them, because of my ignorance I won't be around to take the blame. Can somebody tell me if my paranoia has any basis whether the cops would spend their time in tracking somebody with a single file down, also if they would how long would it take for them to reach that person, from what I have seen in some cases it took about two months after the investigation began, in others it took 6 months but i really don't know. I am desperate please give me a quick response, what is left of my sanity hangs in the balance, and I need to know what's coming. Thank You
PS **** those child molestors, because of them me, an outstanding student a decent member of society, is reduced to a dependence on sleeping pills, and cigarettes to keep from going completely crazy or even worse killing my self. If I do get thrown in jail over this, I will do everything in my power when I get out to make sure those scumbags suffer a slow painful death.

don't look at that stuff you can go to jail just for looking at it.The FBI are hard on people that do that stuff so in other words stay fore from it okay.

I didn't want to look at that stuff. I just didn't know that pthc stood for preeteen harcore, I mean are we all suppossed to know the lingo of the pedophiles. I am still scared shitless, and I just feel that getting this of my chest will make it all better

Just a quick note to boston 1 about files that won't delete, I found that the best one around for doing this is DelinvFile - Utility for Deleting Invalid Files and Folders
Hasn't failed me yet !!
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Ok. First let me say that child porn is a horrible, terrible thing.

Now, the police will spend time trying to catch the people who upload these videos instead of the people viewing them for two reasons:
it stops it at the source,
and that is the easiest way to get a conviction.

Waterinthefuel. You are lying to the forum, either in that you never went to prison, or in the manor that you received child pornography and your actual intent. (or, perhaps, you had a very poor lawyer.) In order to download a file from a p2p network, you must allow people to connect to your IP (which can be secured with a little effort). However, that is very difficult to trace to one particular computer, especially in 2002. If you were searching for a file called "young" by that artist, found that it was not what you wanted,and you deleted the file, the evidence used in court can very well prove your story if the particular circulating file was in fact labeled (on the p2p site)"young, kenny chesney". That title would mean you could not possibly expect the contents to be illegal porn, thus proving lack on intent. (that and you deleted the file) Because you were convicted, the courts ruled that the file you downloaded from kazza was in fact labeled in a manor that you would know what you were receiving, since your IP address came off of that particular file extension (according to your story), which would include the file name.

In America, you are innocent until proven guilty. They convicted you because they had enough evidence against you. If you truly were innocent, you would have taken the necessary measures to prove this such as providing a link to the file you downloaded to the court with its title and actual content, or replacing your hard drive immediately after you received those files.

My theory is that you were convicted of a crime which permitted the police to search your home. They found the pornography on your hard drive, and convicted you of that in addition to your original sentence. Your feeble, uneducated argument, is that you did not know what you were receiving. Please, unless you provide full court records (with the full story), don't try to obtain pity from the forum.


to the young person viewing this material. My advice to you is find a girlfriend your age, or stick to legal pornography, (even though its illegal for you to view). Porn is dangerous, and can be emotionally addicting. It can destroy marriages, careers, and lives. While child pornography is normal to you now, when you grow older it may become a dangerous obsession.

the odds are very low if it was an honest one time (or very infrequent) mistake

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If that were illegal they'd never be able to sell swimsuits at clothing chains.

It's illegal to have sex photos and in many cases, sexualized (though how it is interpreted varies) photos, that's all.

I like other people here have accidentally downloaded child pornography by either clicking misnamed files or getting some unwanted files that were caught when I do mass downloads at one time. It is something you cannot avoid unless you begin to practice more cautious downloading. Unfortunately, law enforcement just doesn't have the resources to catch most pedophiles online... but they are trying. My advice to anyone using Limewire or any other p2p program is to watch your downloads like a hawk and always be patient when clicking on the files you want. Sometimes the search will jump right when you're about to click on something and you end up downloading a file you didn't want and many times won't catch it until you go to play it. Your chances of being brought against the law by accidental downloads is very very slim so don't freak out if it's happened to you. Like I said, law enforcement just doesn't have the resources. Like many people have said on here, the ones being looked at by law enforcement are the people sharing the content wether it is any form of pornography or just simple mp3s. But even then, if it was an accident, just delete or clean the files like people suggest and be more careful from then on. I personally set my share folder to a different folder than my incoming folder that way I can make sure I am not contributing to the problem.

Bottom line is, if you are downloading mp3s, just go buy the cd. If you are downloading porn, keep a very watchful eye on what you're doing. Always have your spyware and virus protection up to date because getting in trouble with the law isnt the only risk you take by using p2p programs, especially when getting porn.

I don't think you'd be immune to the risk by practicing cautious dwnloading. This is why, after learning about this risk, I don't download files off of limewire anymore. Mainly I just go on to browse what other people have. Honestly, if you take a screenshot of the file names that pop up when you type in some words, it shows the obvious implied content.

I don't really see why law enforcement goes after purposeful downloads either, it's data, go after the people making the stuff.