Can anyone suggest any decent alternatives to limewire?

scotsbob

I use Demonoid, never had a virus in 4 years. This is due to the fact that you have to be given an invitation by a member.

aliEnRIK

Im suprised no ones been in to shout out about the forum rules yet

The_Grandmaster

weegie.geek wrote: »

I reckon that within 3 replies someone will have broken forum rules.

It took 5!

And a legal way of listening to music could be spotify open: limited amount of hours per months but still legal.

weegie.geek

Interestingly, post 6 is from someone called Mr_Oink.

@ ScotsBob - Anyone can get into Demonoid, without an invite, surely? Last time I knew, they opened registrations at the start of every month for a day or 2. That's why it's considered in no way private or secure.

I agree with others though, if it's music you're after then Spotify has an impressive selection. Especially non-mainstream stuff.

kwikbreaks

weegie.geek wrote: »

If it's music he's downloading I'd love to know why he's afraid of viruses.

That's right - you only get rootkits and the like by buying your music from Sony.....

aliEnRIK

weegie.geek wrote: »

If it's music he's downloading I'd love to know why he's afraid of viruses.

Many Mp3s have had trojans attached

kwikbreaks

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Many Mp3s have had trojans attached

How do they arrange execution? Exploiting that ridiculous "hide known extensions" virus inviting feature of Windows maybe?

aliEnRIK

kwikbreaks wrote: »

How do they arrange execution? Exploiting that ridiculous "hide known extensions" virus inviting feature of Windows maybe?

Thats something id love to know myself

Really not sure, but ive come across them many times. And they must execute somehow as thats the only variable in some of the tests

Limewire is by FAR the worst P2P for infection via MP3 ive come across

weegie.geek

Possibly they have fake DRM or are renamed asf/qt files that asks the user to download a tool in order to play them, which then turns out to be a trojan, but that's not the same as an mp3 having a trojan. It's an opt-in trojan, and if you fall for that you pretty much deserve the virus.

Feel free to correct me if there's an "mp3 trojan" method I've not heard of.

I'd be inclined to say that anyone getting viruses via downloading something illegal from p2p deserves it. Poetic justice indeed.

aliEnRIK

Its ages since ive dealt with them so its a bit out of memory now. But the last guy I dealt with said all he did was play them on WMP.
Maybe he did try to download something to play it, I couldnt say for sure