my limewire

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My limewire is not working and I need some help heres what it keeps sending me, and if you no any other file sharing programs please tell:

Limewire has encountered a fatal error and will now exit. This is generally
Caused by corrupted installation. Please try downloading and installing LimeWire
Again.

To aid with debugging, please click ‘Review’ to look at the information that will be sent.

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Well first this is an Antivirus forum, second did you try reinstalling like it said?

3

:slight_smile: Hi MLB :

 I found this in the "General Computer Problems" forum on
 Castlecops :

"The more file sharing software on a system the more infected it is . Limewire uses a rootkit to cloak its files but they can't hide from a remote scan and I have noticed other files hidden by this method that the user would want to know about . "

  You can read the "full" discussion at :

http://www.castlecops.com/postlite153185-limewire.html

P.S. I told you 2 weeks ago about “Shareaza” ; did you ever
go its website !?

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To aid with debugging, please click ‘Review’ to look at the information that will be sent.

For me I wouldn’t click Review for all the tea in China, this could be a means to trick you into downloading something malicious.

Given what Spiritsongs says if I were a P2P user I wouldn’t touch Limewire with a barge pole (long stick), P2P programs are always going to have an element of risk downloading from unknown sources and it would seem that using Limewire increases that risk.

Shades of the Sony rootkit used to hide files that once know was exploited by other malware to hide their files.

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Use Shareaza: http://www.shareaza.com/
Don’t forget to install PeerGuardian 2: http://phoenixlabs.org/ and be very carefull with your downloads.

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Hi mlb32001,

Here you will see an accepted method for cleansing infections through limewire, together with the tools and programs used for it to be effective:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/Viruses/Q_21738057.html

http://metallica.geekstogo.com/alcanshorty.bfu for the alcra remover script, to be used with Brute Force Uninstaller from here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=4714&file=11&evp=a8e58ad4eb27c21c7c352bc2253cf345
Tutorial: http://metallica.geekstogo.com/BFUinstructions.html
Some example scripts against dialers: http://metallica.geekstogo.com/dialers.html

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