Friday, August 20, 2010

Can you get viruses, spyware, adware, and malware from Limewire?

i use limewire pro for getting songs only because i know that you can easily get a virus by downloading programs from limewire.



Can you get viruses, spyware, adware, and malware from Limewire?spyware removal



Very easily. If you are going to this kind of site, make sure your anti-virus and firewall is up to date. And have a recovery plan, i.e. back up important files as at some time you may need to recover your machine, even as far as reinstalling the OS.



Can you get viruses, spyware, adware, and malware from Limewire?virus protection software



Yes you can, even if you are just downloading music. Make sure you have an updated %26 correctly configured firewall, updated virus %26 spyware protection.
As long as you stick with AVI's, MP3's and the like, then ye, you should be fine. But as you say, it's the programmes that can include viruses. It's very difficult to include a virus in a music or movie file (probably not impossible), but if you do ever get a .exe in any Album folder or any file, do not open it.



If you ever do donwload a prog, then run it through this site first:



http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexf.html



It will scan it with many different Virus scanners and give you a result from each one.

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