LIME WIRE IS EVIL!!!!

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:28 pm

i caution you all that have lime wire to uninstal it immedieatly!! i have a computer virus W32/Alemod.f.dll that my McAfee anti-virus can't delete clean or even quaratine!! which i gotten my self infected by what else DOWN LOADING MUSIC FROM LIME WIRE!!

Now thanks to who ever made that virus i have to back up every thing on my hard drive, then scrub it clean, COMPLETELY!!! so i may be not be on much to day maybe tomarrow taking care of this crap.

SAVE YOUR COMPUTERS!!! REMOVE LIME WIRE OR ANY FILE SHARING PROGRAMS THAT IS IN YOUR COMPUTER(S)!!! IT'S AT RISK!!!

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:21 pm

Download Avast! Home Edition. That might take care of it.

white · Post by **white** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:40 pm

This sort of thing is why you should:

Never download, let alone open anything you don't trust completely
Always maintain an effective multifaceted and up-to-date defense system
Know your system down to a low level to assist messy cleanups
Routinely backup imporant data - that virus may well have implanted itself in something you're going to put back on your system after the cleanup

Searif · Post by **Searif** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:37 pm

I have been using a downloading program for quite some time, never once have I gotten a virus, plus if I do then I will deal with it.

Vuldari · Post by **Vuldari** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:24 pm

I don't think it was the LIME WIRE program that gave you the virus.

...rather...the programs security protocols were insufficient to stop the virus from leaking into one of the downloads.

Stuff like this happens all the time. Curse your bad luck...repair the damage as best you can and make sure your anti-virus software is allways up to date.

That's really all you can do. Even if you did all that, it could still be possible to get a virus from THIS website if a hacker was cruel enough to plant one here.

...such is another one of the many perils of the internet...

Allthough...frequent downloading from ANY website, (especially the unlicenced, underground network types), greatly increases ones chances of getting a virus, even if all your firewalls and virus checkers are running 100%.

...heck...you can get a virus just by being connected to the internet, without even browsing to any webpages. If you are the unlucky winner of the hacker IP-adress rulette, your computer could be randomly targeted, and implanted with a virus that transmits every bit of personal data on your PC to the sender and then wipes out your entire system when it's done (after sending itself to everyone in your e-mail contacts list first)...just for laughs.

Thanks for the warning though. I'll add LIMEWIRE as #2395794287230948 on my list of ways to get a computer virus, and think twice before using it myself.

Like Ralith said...take every precaution, and back up your important data as often as you can. ...because you never know when you might be the next unlucky one.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:42 pm

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:09 pm

Yeah, I try to download Red Faction 2 from several different files and they just so happen to all be viruses, luckily I have a Firewall in place, Pandaware Titanuim Antivirus+Antispyware 2006.

Edit:Im gonna try to post program in here.

And by the this is scary, my computer was typing by itself a moment ago.

Searif · Post by **Searif** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:17 pm

Shadow Wulf wrote:Yeah, I try to download Red Faction 2 from several different files and they just so happen to all be viruses, luckily I have a Firewall in place, Pandaware Titanuim Antivirus+Antispyware 2006.

Edit:Im gonna try to post program in here.

And by the this is scary, my computer was typing by itself a moment ago.

thats why you do not download games, the only game I ever downloaded was one that is only in arcade machines, dont see how the guy got the program though

also, what was your computer typing?

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:26 pm

Um something wierd, "the dance on stage and something something, I dont know.

The strange thing is that this sign will first appear ; and it turnbs into a letter.

This yousendit is crap, takes forever to get this file to be sent.

Searif · Post by **Searif** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:36 pm

Shadow Wulf wrote:Um something wierd, "the dance on stage and something something, I dont know.

The strange thing is that this sign will first appear ; and it turnbs into a letter.

This yousendit is crap, takes forever to get this file to be sent.

hm, either you computer is haunted or you have a hacker

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:42 pm

Searif wrote:
Shadow Wulf wrote:Um something wierd, "the dance on stage and something something, I dont know.

The strange thing is that this sign will first appear ; and it turnbs into a letter.

This yousendit is crap, takes forever to get this file to be sent.
hm, either you computer is haunted or you have a hacker

Its haunted because I don't know what Shadow Wulf is trying to say.

silverpaw · Post by **silverpaw** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:12 am

Yeah what?

I have never got any viruses from it.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:02 am

Now I know how the hacker got accessed to my computer. My firewall was down.

silly me.

And Figarou, mabey you should check www.yousendit.com

Kirk Hammett · Post by **Kirk Hammett** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:39 am

Hmmm....any program that shares is dodgy. Im not a computer guru, lucky my brother did courses in this stuff. I back my stuff up regularly on data CDs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of !.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:47 pm

Shadow Wulf wrote:Now I know how the hacker got accessed to my computer. My firewall was down. silly me.

And Figarou, mabey you should check www.yousendit.com

Ok, now I know what you're talking about.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:53 am

silly fig.