I agree. Flashing ads and spyware distract from the fine product.

LW already comes with Gator.

And they want you to install BonziBuddy too.

BonziBuddy?! What are these people smoking?!!!
I'd like to shoot that stupid excuse for a purple Barney clone.

Greetings,

Can we use AdAware to remove the various ad-ons that LimeWire 1.9c installs? In other words, will LimeWire still run if we remove the other stuff?

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Also, slightly off topic, on the main screen of Limewire, does 1.9c still no longer have visually displayed the #Hosts/#Files/#Bytes? I really like having this information in from of my face.

J

nope
LimeWire bitches if you remove cydoor w/ adaware. there are however ways which are as popular. it basicaly castrate cydoor and fool LimeWire to continue to work
i haven't bothered w/ any version over 1.9b so i don't know if that'll work w/ other spyware they include

nope
LimeWire bitches if you remove cydoor w/ adaware. there are however ways which are not as popular. it basicaly castrates cydoor and fool LimeWire to continue to work
i haven't bothered w/ any version over 1.9b so i don't know if that'll work w/ other spyware they include

Can you share some of these other ways with us?

Maybe you can just go to limewire.org and download the sources to the FREE PRO VERSION and run it yourself using the JDK?

Personally I think $6 is a totally reasonable fee for 6 months of free product.

Yes!

Or wait a little bit... there will be other solutions in future!

Morgwen

I thought Limewire is considered open source now days. Shouldn't that mean you can download the source code and compile it without the spyware. Or at least change the code slightly to allow removal of the spyware. I would imagine that the code that renders Lime Wire inactive if the spyware is removed may be only a few lines long. Or perhaps just an if statement that checks if the spyware exists. Since I havn't looked at the code I really have no idea. If anyone knows anything about this please let me know because I will not download any software to which bundled applications can not be individually removed without de-activating the original software.

See
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rema...=flat;start=60
for the details! Your system is WIDE OPEN if you've installed a recent version of Limewire.