Is limewire Illegal? Does it give your comp viruses ??

My friend has lime wire and she uses it all the time. Does it also give viruses to your computer?

Is limewire Illegal? Does it give your comp viruses ??triumph

Limewire itself is not illegal. But it can and usually is used for illegal purposes. Limewire itself will not give you a virus. What you download with it can though.

Basically, if you use limewire to download music you are safe from viruses. You are not safe from the recording industry sueing you and winning a $250,000 judgement against you (this happened to a single mom in Minnesota about three months ago.)

If you use limewire to download programs instead of music. I can tell you just about everything on there is infected. Downloading programs from limewire is the quickest way I know to get a virus, and most of them are obvious. For instance, do a search for microsoft office with limewire and the vast majority of the results will be a 2 meg zip file containing an exe file. click on it and you're bit. (there is no way a program that comes on 2 cd's can be in a 2 meg file.)

My advice if you want to use limewire for music, that's up to you, but turn your file sharing off, and completely shut the program down after you get what you want. (x ing it out doesn't shut it down, it just minimizes it to the tray by the clock.)

Is limewire Illegal? Does it give your comp viruses ??worms