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Old November 24th, 2006
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Hi I am new to Limewire....whenever I do a search I am always finding zip or exe files. When I try to download them, they appear to download, but they will not run. Most of the time the files are setup.exe
Any help would be greatley appreciated.
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Old November 24th, 2006
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Be really careful with those files, most of them are full of viruses..
Check this thread out it will tell you what to be careful of...
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=41432

If you still want to download them check them with Bitzi...
This thread will explain Bitzi and how to use it...
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=37676
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Old November 24th, 2006
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you must be searching for programs and not music what i do is download
zip files then go to the library and right click on it and run a virus scan on it
if there is a virus in it it will tell you then delete it you got to be careful
downloading programs seems like there is a lot of viruses in them get the zip files and run the virus scan on them yo ucan download bit zipper for free to open
them hope this helps
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