I can't see any harm in adding a password to the adult/word filter options if that would make worried users (especially parents) feel better.

However, in my tests, these filters (even with a wide range of words added to the filter list) are not very effective and a large number of porn hits can still get through - for example those that simply have a girl's name.

Apart from that, the reality is that most kids have very little trouble getting round any security measures that parents put in place on the computer. For example, a friend of mine's little brother (12 years old) has his doting parents convinced that he's a little angel who only uses the net to research his school projects. But in reality, when he's not kicking butt in Quake 3 or Halflife, he's taking peeks at porn sites that his friends have sent him hacked passwords for. He also has no problems leaving the hard disk squeaky-clean with trace-removing software for when mum and dad come home. So if his parents placed security restrictions on the Web Browser or P2P software, he would have no trouble at all finding and downloading unrestricted alternatives. I have to add here that his elder sibling has excercised a teeny-weeny bit of influence in this pattern of behaviour though, to his credit, he ocasionally tries to instill a little bit of responsibility.

"But my little cherubin wouldn't do anything like that!", I hear parents cry. Well....you'd know better than I.

I'll put a precompiled version of the LimeWire.jar with the adult filter enabled by default online this evening (CEST). I'll post a link here.

Okay, this is a version of LimeWire with adult filter always on. You need a working LimeWire installation to use it. Overwrite the program files of your LimeWire installation with the files contained in this zip. (LimeWire.jar, MessageBundle.properties and RunLime.jar).

This is a beta version from cvs with some of the newest features (hashing, browse host) but since the adult filter is not really very sophisticated you won't be able to download songs like "Beck - Sexx Laws" either.

This file will remain online for a day at max. After that period you'll have to search for "limewire adult filter always on" with LimeWire, and if you are lucky, you might find it.

The only way of getting around the adult filter is replacing the program files with new ones from the official installation. So make sure, the people you want to keep from downloading porn don't have writing permissions to the LimeWire.jar file (disallow writing to the whole LimeWire folder might cause problems LimeWire, it will work more or less, though).

ftp://whitedragon.dyndns.org/limewire.zip

P.S.
Don't download this for fun!

Awww, I missed it!
Would it have worked on Mac OSX?

If so, would anyone would be kind enough to email it to me at dan@oxdance.co.uk
I'd be very grateful!

it's still online, the download is a little slow, however, because I'm running limewire in the background.

Unfortunately, it broke Limewire for me maybe its my OS (Mac OSX) - I couldn't connect to any servers or enter any searches.

But thanks for trying!

Oh, yes, that's probably one of the bugs in the current cvs code. It won't connect when the size of the gnutella.net file is 0 bytes. Try using a new gnutella.net file (copy it into the same folder as the rest of the files) you can get it here:

ftp://whitedragon.dyndns.org/gnutella.net

(If it really didn't work on MacOSX it wouldn't even start. For almost everything else, there is a workaround. )

Yay - that did the trick. Thanks a LOT Taliban and Gregorio (who emailed me the file I couldn't DL)
PS yes, that last post was me too - I just forgot to put my name!

Taliban and Gregorio are one and the same person.

Hello All:

I know this string is pretty ancient, but I would really like to know if anyone has the patch to turn the adult filter always on for Mac OS X users. It would really solve a lot of problems for me. I can't seem to find it on Limewire.

Thanks.