I recently downloaded and installed shareaza... it has a nice look, but for some reason I can't shake the idea that I'm about to torture myself with kazaa and emule's corrupt, incomplete, spammed and virus ridden files.... the first file I downloaded, when I ran it in media player asked for me to click on yes to download some security update from microsoft...., I then burned the file to a cd, ran it in my test computer, clicked on yes, and all hell broke loose... some downloader froze my machine and, needles to say, I didnt like that very much, that doesnt mean shareaza is not a good program, but I will stick to limewire which basically has gotten me 95% of the files I looked for, obviously I've had to sort out many virus or corrupt files, but it is much simpler to use, and has a much better user interface than any other program out there.
After kazaa and emule, I went for mirc, where in certain channels you were sure to get clean files, until I came across Limwewire.

Well that answers my question of "is shareaza still bad with virus's?" So I think I will stay clear of it.

Im looking for another program since BS went bonkers. Im not a big fan of LW tho.

I don't like Shareaza one bit but was has anything of this to do with Shareaza? You don't need Shareaza, LimeWire or anything in particular to download a virus. Neither LimeWire, BearShare or any other software will protect you against viruses. You really have to download and install "Common Sense 2006". That's the only thing which helps against viruses.

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nice call there hyperd00d, very nice...you obviously picked up on the trollish nature of this poster right quickly
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C'mon, Shareaza isn't bad, its so cool cuz it has 3 networks, the 2 versions of Gnutella and E-Donkey Net, it is so cool, and how Hyper-kun sayz, "neither Limewire, or Shareaza will help against viruses"...

My friend is telling me to get Shareaza, but I got LimeWirePro. I don't know which is better though, and I haven't really had a chance to test out LWP.

and just how can you make any comment in comparison, considering you've never tried shareaza?...hmmmmm?????

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I said I didn't know. I still don't. I just heard more about LimeWire, especially PRO.

I would like to get rid of the pop-up "Magnet Link Handler" when my Limewire program starts. Would anyone know how I can get rid of this annoying feature?

This is a recent phenom. Did not happen before.