Here's a weird one: as of this AM, my 4.9.7 is bugging me to update. I've set it to notify me of any new versions, including betas. At the Web site: nothing. Still 4.8.1 on the main download page, and still 4.9.7 on the beta download page. No newer version than 4.9.7 exists, according to your Web site. Either the Web site is broken, or 4.9.7's update notification is broken. I think it's the latter, since it probably just checks the Web site to see what the latest version is, and wouldn't therefore know of an update if there was a 4.9.8 but the Web site had not been updated to reflect that fact.

Did Limewire open the website when you clicked "update now"?

I didn't click it. I went to the Web site manually in my browser. I don't trust links in apps to launch my choice of browser -- too many times when I have clicked a link like that, it's launched IE despite my system preferences setting, which is to launch Firefox. And given that I got a notice that a popup had been blocked when I went to the Limewire download page, it looks like I was wise indeed to ensure the browser I went there in was Firefox -- these days, just because a site never tried to spam you before is clearly no guarantee it won't suddenly start some day...

Hehe, you are very wise to use Firefox. The link we have at the bottom of LimeWire however should not try to open a browser - instead it should try to update LimeWire automatically. Give it a try and let us know how it goes.

I can tell you without even trying it that it won't work. Since the most recent version is still 4.9.7, it will either do nothing, produce an error message, or reinstall itself. But it won't update.

Unless the web site is for some reason not up to date?

I have always set large files to download overnight, but it seems now that I just upgraded to the latest version, files aborted themselves with no way for me to resume downloading. (ESPECIALLY frustrating when a 700mb file is 87% complete at the point of abort.)

Whats going on with that?

Why don't you give it a try and see?

That will be fixed in the next beta which will be out later today. You may have seen a notification that an update is available - if so you can update to 4.9.8

RubberSideDown I'm just wondering if you one day came across a message saying a file was corrupt & answered no to continuing it & then ticked the option box to always use that answer. If you did, then it will always abort such a downld. The way to undo that would be to go to Tools>Options>View>Popups & tick Revert to Default. But if you are happy with that setting then leave it as is. It was just a thought!

You can rest assured that this mechanism is as secure as our website. It is protected by a private key which is just as secure as the server that hosts our website. It would be just as difficult for someone to compromise the viral update mechanism as it would be for them to hack our website and start distributing their trojaned version from there.