Limewire Shut Down

So it's ok to shoplift from walmart, rather than your corner market, because it's a huge corporation?

Wait.. are you saying that if a corporation/artist is successful, that theft of their property is less important??? Sounds like a bad case of situational ethics to me...

Limewires needed to die for a while now, hopefully Frostwire will follow as well.

Corrine said:

I don't know, Capt.Jack. However, when they do, I know we'll see fewer people needing help in the security forums. Many of the security forums require all P2P programs to be uninstalled before assistance will be provided.

Even uTorrent/BitTorrent clients? Thats rather unfair and biased since it does have its legit uses (such as download linux distrobutions). Remind me never to visit one of those security forums.

Uninstalling a program is a small price to pay for some good help

LiquidSnak said:

Uninstalling a program is a small price to pay for some good help

I suppose that is true. Still though, it is your computer. If the P2P client is the source of the issue then that is your problem. You shouldn't be forced to uninstall something that in most cases actually are 'not' the cause of viruses (referring to uTorrent/BitTorrent, not Limewire).

A majority of viruses come from un-educated users downloading everything and its brother and running it even when they generally do not know what it is. Then they end up whinning that Windows sucks because they got infected.

Sorry, got a bit off track. My point is, its just plain biased to force a user to remove a program that isn't generally the cause of something before removing it. Reminds me of when a friend got yelled at by a Bestbuy Geeksquad Agent for having uTorrent installed. Told my friend to tell that guy next time to shove his comments where the moon don't shine.

In my experiences, I've had many more computers come back with problems generated by malicious files disguised as music, videos, or applications from Limewire, Bearshare, and the like than from torrent clients.

IownAmoneyPit said:

If torrent sites were forced to use only legal torrents such as Linux distros and the Neosmart startup repair CDs for Windows 7 & vista, they would probably go out of business in short order as just about everything is trademarked & copyrighted or start charging for the torrents by downloaded file size.

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: Mininova Homepage said:

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This is the only reason I still use torrents at all

Orbital Shark said:

This is indeed good news :)

On the other hand...I'll earn less money cleaning Viruses from machines as Limewire was the biggest contributor. Hmmm, gonna have to think of something else now

Ditto...

No worries, there's enough security holes in Facebook and tons of other websites to keep the Trojan's a Flowing and side work plentiful.

Heck, my G/F last night was looking for a pumpkin stencil on the internet and she got hit with a trojan.

MSE, SuperAntiSpyWare Pro and Malwarebytes got her fixed in a jiffy....but just saying...