explain this, please.

Because the dialers are written for PC (*.exe) so they don't work on Mac, same for stupid virii

I've never gotten anything bad from limewire, but i only get music and avoid all those obviously fake files that are too small etc. But i downloades spybot search and destroy just to see what it would find. HOLY CRAP! 3 pages of stuff that wasnt s'posed to be there! and i dont mean cookies either. What a great little tool, everyone should have it.

limewire also does not fully uninstall either using their uninstall program or windows add/remove feature. It leaves junk in your registry and you can only remove it by messing with the registry or utilizing the windows configuration utility and unchecking it from loading on startup (what I did). So if you are getting a "WJViewer error- main could not load" after uninstalling....that's why.
As for the dialer...I have had success in using "find file" and finding every file created in the last day and delete the ******* from there.



limewire now sucks.

Window Washer
(c) 1999-2002 Webroot Software, Inc.
Version 4.8
"Cleans up your tracks!"
(with that lemon fresh scent!)
http://www.webroot.com/washer.htm

WARNING TO ALL: DOWNLOADERS PLEASE READ: BE CAREFUL OF x-FINDER Disguised as what U want!

While doing a search for "Teal" software I came across what claimed to be "Teal_Crack".zip. When I opened it (and before clicking "install" or otherwise giving permission) it slammed in to my start up menu and could not be deleted. It did not appear in "Add/Remove Programs."

Only by using a registry cleaner to delete from start up menu was I able to then go in and find it (hidden in program files under WINNT/Dialer!) and ERASE that *******.

It will disguise itself as almost any app YOU are LOOKING FOR; I don't know how to trace these pricks because I didn't note the Location Number -- but IT IS AROUND 70k and will appear in the EXACT WORDING of what you were looking for.

Take care everybody -- please leave this very small text file in your shared folder.

One easy, safe solution from your phone company ,900-call block.

Not that easy, my friend. These things don't often call 900#s. I have DSL and no modem/phone line -- still don't want that UNSOLICITED CRAP on my computer, and neither should you. God knows what other harm it could do, and no on asked for it. It is fraud, basically.

Several other members have posted instructions -- one girl in particular--with clearer instructions than mine for getting rid of it. Please give it a try if you end up contracting it -- the effort is worth it.

Umm... It's now limewire's fault you got that virus. Even if you don't download .exe, vbs, etc. files, it's still your fault. .Zip files can contain all of those types of files.
Oh and about the kiddy porn? That's not limewires's fault either. They cannot be held liable. The reason: In order for them to be able to effectively block, delete it, and ban the ip addresses, they would have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on photo recognition software that would take precious gigabytes of hard drive space, take months to download, and also, software like that has not been invented yet. They could just filter out the file names, but that wouldn't work. Some do not even have regular file names so people get tricked often. I once downloaded a zip file that supposedly had a song in it. It instead had some really sick kiddy porn.... I hope those people burn. MWA HA HA HA HAAA!!!!! Also, if you find kiddy porn while browsing a host or searching (hopefully not for that), then I encourage you to report those IP adresses to the proper Authorities.

Have a friend in London having troubles with a virus.

With some time to kill due to rainy weather ( no, no... not tennis... I was ready for gardening chores!), I thought of checking out LW forum and ran across this thread. I proceeded to check it out for myself.

Runnnig a search for Spybot the following appeared.

Four IP addresses, seven offerings to share SpyBot SD, all files corrupt and virus ridden. A Norton Pop-Up appeared as each was added to my shared folder, telling me that a was removed from my system.

You may want to block these IP's
38.144.198.150
192.168.1.101
68.102.207.117
80.132.93.239

80.132.93.239, when browsed showed 387 files, all porn and other "helpful" and oft searched for software.

You don't have to go very far to find a terrorist or anarchist today, do you?