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.

Go to program files, Press L untill you get to Limewire and just delete the folder. Thats how I fixed it for myself.

I downloaded lime wire and the player on it will not play my downloads when it does play it sounds as if its jumping and freezing all of the songs are doing it.Iv tryed uninstalling it and re installing it and nothing its still the same.

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.

I copied the task manager and pasted to my desktop, but it still won't open. before that I disabled the System Restore. So now what can I do Hmmmmmmmmm...Hempy

hey yeah um, i kinda forgot what i ended the process. so am i totally screwed now?

you think you got it bad, i hit NINETY THOUSAND!
all were in some volume thingy. idk what they were but deleting them sure fixed everything. this program rocks!~ thanks grandpa

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!!!!

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