Is limewire by default allowing anyone to browse my shared files? If so, how do I disable it?

You can't disable it.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

Well, then we got a feuture request

Im sure sutch an option whould be liked, because anti-piracy groups that like to sniff around, use this option for "evil". Not so long ago, many edonkey and kazaa users in Denmark got a screenshot of theyr shared files along with a bill in theyr mail, whouldnt want that to happen to gnutella users

I don't see what this would achieve. Browsing hosts is not necessary to find out what you are sharing, your LimeWire is already "broadcasting" all your files to the whole network. If anybody want's to find out who is infringing copyrights, he just connects to the network with a couple of ultrapeers and waits for people to send their QueryHits.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

Well it still gives a user more securtity, it's not just to "right click -> browse user files", he whould have to put up ultrapeer(s) and hope to get lucky.

Don't be mistaken, when running a couple of ultrapeers you don't have to browse users individually. You can just leave the ultrapeer running and collect data on thousands of users within just a couple of hours and that's what companies like Overpeer and Mediaforce are doing all the time. Not a single company searching the network for copyright infringements uses the browse host functionality.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

*feels stupid*

well I guess there's no point of sutch option then

thanks for the replys