Thanks, I'll go there.

I believe this virus is a little file that you can download by mistake that is around 800 kb in size. I was searching for things and i downloaded a file of that size. There were like 50 of them, all the same exact size with different file names. I downloaded one thinking it was legitimate but it just had a short movie of a girl dancing in front of her webcam. Then all of a sudden all this stuff occured. I'm assuming this movie and the virus are connected. By the way, NONE of the file names everyone listed here are in my task manager's process tab. I only got to page 6 so far though so maybe I'm mistaken, but I know its the same virus because I had the same exact problem as the topic creator.

Oh, by the way, sorry for the doublepost but yeah, I'm using that one guy's fix where you rename your limewire folder and download Windows Anti Spyware or whatever the name was. I don't care if it slows down my computer a little, I'm used to it, and I can live with not having the task manager come up with Ctrl + Alt + Delete. So far limewire has not popped up again, but of course the Task Manager doesn't come up. But since I have it on my desktop I can get it when I need it. But this virus ticked me off and I will take great pleasure in dismembering it piece by piece myself. I hope the limewire staff purges this virus from the searches forever.

LW's media player can sometimes have that problem if LW is very busy downlding, etc. So what you can do is go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Player & uncheck the option to use LW's media player. I'm not sure if you need to restart LW, but after that your default audio player will play them instead.

BTW this thread topic is about viruses. Your topic is different. But the thread title does seem to justify your posting here.

Edit: Who said anything about config. I said to go see Norbie because he is an expert at helping people eliminate viruses & get their system back in order thereafter. There's no one answer to all virus problems.

PROBLEM: the limewire virus corrupted my system so badly that it hangs / freezes every minute and it destroyed my firewall as well. volume control is disabled and internet access is forbidden..limewire keeps popping up and advertistments are getting on my nerves.

SOLUTION: My advice would be to uninstall limewire completely and delete any files with associations to limewire, then download trial files of ewido anti-spyware or etrust antivirus program and do a complete system scan. delete any files that are infected. i did that and i went to http://www.norbiesworld.co.uk and now everything's fixed! it feels so nice to see all the firewalls, updates and virus protection turned on at your security centre (: if you're experiencing the same problem, sign up at norbiesworld and go to "free computer help" =D

REFERENCE: http://www.norbiesworld.co.uk/Forums...326.html#18326 this is where i posted my help message, feel free to view as reference!! =)

lime6, glad that you went to Norbie, he's good

I'd have to say that prevention is better than cure though... everybody should make sure that they have a good AV program (no excuse not to as there are very reliable free ones!), keep it updated and scan downloaded files before opening!!!!

all is quite fine right now however my computer still hangs / freezes at times. any suggestions??

i had the same problem now a box appears with this in it

LimeWire version 4.10.9
Java version 1.5.0_03 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Windows XP v. 5.1 on x86
Free/total memory: 2792944/4128768

com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader$StartupFailed Exception: invalid update.ver
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.sanityCheck(G UILoader.java:274)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.load(GUILoade r.java:40)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Main.java:44)

STARTUP ERROR!




FILES IN CURRENT DIRECTORY:
C:\Program Files\limewire\clink.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759552812
SIZE: 307949

C:\Program Files\limewire\commons-httpclient.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759552890
SIZE: 459988

C:\Program Files\limewire\commons-logging.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759552937
SIZE: 59154

C:\Program Files\limewire\commons-net.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553015
SIZE: 355370

C:\Program Files\limewire\daap.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553078
SIZE: 311611

C:\Program Files\limewire\GenericWindowsUtils.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1140126936078
SIZE: 12279

C:\Program Files\limewire\hs_err_pid240.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1148857334062
SIZE: 13786

C:\Program Files\limewire\hs_err_pid3052.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1148980477312
SIZE: 13484

C:\Program Files\limewire\hs_err_pid5016.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1151034069546
SIZE: 10311

C:\Program Files\limewire\hs_err_pid5704.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1151006024046
SIZE: 10310

C:\Program Files\limewire\i18n.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553125
SIZE: 25678

C:\Program Files\limewire\icu4j.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553203
SIZE: 741440

C:\Program Files\limewire\id3v2.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553250
SIZE: 94430

C:\Program Files\limewire\jcraft.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553312
SIZE: 136693

C:\Program Files\limewire\jl011.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553375
SIZE: 255016

C:\Program Files\limewire\jmdns.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553421
SIZE: 69306

C:\Program Files\limewire\LimeWire.exe
LAST MODIFIED: 1140126937718
SIZE: 81920

C:\Program Files\limewire\LimeWire.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759551968
SIZE: 6326769

C:\Program Files\limewire\LimeWire20.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1140126937531
SIZE: 40960

C:\Program Files\limewire\log4j.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553515
SIZE: 677952

C:\Program Files\limewire\logicrypto.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553578
SIZE: 227510

C:\Program Files\limewire\looks.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553671
SIZE: 630634

C:\Program Files\limewire\MessagesBundles.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759552671
SIZE: 2823898

C:\Program Files\limewire\mp3sp14.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553718
SIZE: 40064

C:\Program Files\limewire\ProgressTabs.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759552750
SIZE: 5786

C:\Program Files\limewire\themes.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553781
SIZE: 379049

C:\Program Files\limewire\tritonus.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553843
SIZE: 152711

C:\Program Files\limewire\vorbis.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759553890
SIZE: 27215

C:\Program Files\limewire\WindowsV5PlusUtils.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1140126937546
SIZE: 12808

C:\Program Files\limewire\xerces.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759554109
SIZE: 2147687

C:\Program Files\limewire\xml-apis.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1145759554234
SIZE: 207655

plz help

andokris, perhaps you could try deleting any files with associations with limewire. have you uninstalled limewire? but anyways, try norbie's world

lime6, is your comp hanging/freezing at any particular time (eg when downloading, while loading LW)? Does it only hang when you've got LW open?

What version of LW & Java are you using? Sometimes, updating your Java will help. Use the offline installer here
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

You can also try switching off ultrapeer capabilities (tools > options > speed. Tick 'disable u/p capabilities' & apply). Also, reducing your upload & download bandwidth a bit might help. There's a good guide for optimising LW here, tells you how your bandwidth settings should be for best performance
Configuring LW for best performance
Try reducing the number of simultaneous downloads too, see if that makes a difference