Torrents, limewire, and Kazaa: The horrible secret

[Shadowblind]

About torrents, limewire, and kazaa

DONT USE THEM.

I got over 40,000 invisible spams and virus, most of which were W32/generic.m.

I never even knew, no virus protects picked em up.

if you do use torrents, try to find this directory through typing it in at the the file directory at the top of the file, not manually searching (it wont appear manually)

C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\Complete

If you can find that, its almost assured that is a nesting grounds for viruses. Most of the files should be things you've never seen before. But be warned, if you try to delete them too fast, your comp may freeze. Delete only a few at a time to avoid freezes.

also, if you have a shared folder, there is almost ALWAYS gonna be a virus nest there as well if you use limewire or Kazaa. You can't find the viruses as easily as the torrent viruses. You will most likely have to delete the whole Shared file.

I can't say much for the things you downloaded, either. They most likely contain spamware viruses.

Dont suffer the same fate my computer underwent, but the valient efforts of McAfee spamware remover helped remove some pf the viruses, the rest I had to do by hand. Even now, I still cannot create computer backgrounds.

Just be warned, these are the deadliest ways to destroy a computer.

[FrierTuck]

dude, limewire and such this is true but im confident Bit Torrent is innocent, and heres a tip, go into your reg settings and change super hidden files to viewable, i got rid of 5 gigs of files i didnt know existed, its like i was downloading the enite limewire network or something lol

[Shadowblind]

Bit torrent, huh? Thats what I used.

[FrierTuck]

im telling you man, limewire, if you ever used any other p2p, that was what was responsible, ive been using BT for two years running, never had a single problem, but on another pc, with limewire, there was a big problem if you know what i mean lol, but what client are/were you using?

[Video_freak]

Thanks for the tips Shadowblind.
I'm sorry about your computer...

[souLLy]

just be picky about what you download on things like that. As in don't download files called KornBritneySpearsNudePhotosNEWSongHotXXX.jpg.exe and if you're downloading programmes, virus scan them before opening. It's good to have ad-aware and an anti-virus programme like avast running too.

[Gizmo356]

yeah what he said

[quzar]

The #1 thing that viruses attack is user stupidity.

[NoQuarter]

Scanning does no good as new viruses pop up every day,linux is a slightly safer route as most viruses and trojans are written for windows.Just don't get online as root,and after downloading large amounts of files delete the user(after backing up your data of course. file sharing networks open ports into your computer which is an open door to all sorts of things

Let me rephrase that, scanning documents is a good idea, it just doesn't cover the newest trojans or viruses.

[BoneyCork]

I've been using torrents for years and have absolutely no problems. In fact my past 2 computers have been the most stable I have ever had.

If you use decent trackers with a good reputation there is nothing to worry about.