iv been using limewire fore about 1 year now and i love it but for some reason yesterday i shutdown my computer and now its mmessed up!!! limewire keeps opening every 5 minutes!!!
iv tryed everything i even uninstalled it and its still tryn to open and an error message pops up every 1min (i timed it and every min on the min it trys to open) so if any one could help me please do and thanks in advans.

It could be a virus. There are viruses on the network that will do that. Check out this link part 4(a): WARNING: Viruses on network you should be aware of!

Good luck

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haha yes i fixed it!!! my anti-virus program was off and i acadently downloaded a virus!! i deleted the file that was infected and now it stoped opening. thanku so much i never would wave thought it was a virus. thanku so much

NOOOOOOOOOOO i just woke up an limewire was open!!! it opend 10 times i think thats the max. it was fine last night and now its messd up again!!! and my anti-virus program didnt detect anything so its not a virus!!!? also it said in the shared files that i downloaded over 10,000 files all between 100 and 800 kbs??? can anyone help me put an end to this???

Well Jas

You will find that you are still infected and that Norton AV on it's own cannot quite kill off this problem on it's own because, I believe, anytime you go online you will be re-infected again. This is caused by a hidden program on your PC which monitors the (health of the) virus so that if it gets killed off it sends for another virus to replace it.

You will have to check your HD for new folders and delete them but do this offline, also I believe that there may be a hidden folder called C:\Update, or something similar, find and delete this folder.

I would also suggest that you check your AV scanner, make sure it is working properly, and update your virus definitions. You may not know this but some viruses can attack Norton AV and either disable it or make themselves invisible to the AV's scanner.

So, to summerise:

Delete virus created files and folders, especially the hidden ones.

Check, update and run your AV again.

Finally, never, ever go on the P2P network without your AV enabled.

Right now you have some hard work to do in order to make your PC virus free.

Good Luck.




UK Bob

PS. You might want to invest in a firewall, this will stop stuff coming and going from your PC without your permission.

ok iv done every thing i checked my computer 10 times with 2 anti-virus programs (avast 4.6 home and winantivirus 2005 pro0 and deleted all infected files (only 7) now theres no infected files i have a firewall and its been up and running since the begining and still nothing it keeps poping up!!!

Ouchies. My comp runs AVG, Microsoft Beta, AdAware and Spybot and they seem to do the trick. Though if you don't have them, your obviously going to have to get on the net to get them, once again taking you back to square one. If all else fails, invest in a spare hard drive and reboot, pain in the butt but did it myself awhile ago on a non related matter and saved me a lot of heartbreak and frustration.
As UKBobby said, check out which folders and files have been created lately, make sure you have 'show all hidden files/folders' tabbed on.

iv ran adaware already like 30 times and it didnt help any. and i deleted all files that i didnt get there was over 10,000 files that i didnt download in the shared folder all between 100 and 800kbs i dont kno how they got there but deleted them that didnt do anything ether. this is realy anoying

now every time it opens avast detects about 5 or 6 infected files!? has anyone else got this? if so PLEASE HELP!!! its driving me crazy!! if i fix this im probebly never gona use limewire again!!! and i never thought i would say that

Sounds to me like your Limewire got like it got corrupt. You may have to uninstall it and start fresh. and rename the folders that you dontwant shared so LW wont recognize them again. you picked up something from Gnutella. Unistall LW quickly, deleted all the leftover folders, move your downloads to another folder, rename it, reboot your computer, scan and defrag your system, then, start fresh.