Difficulty: Moderate
Instructions
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Step 1
Keep your anti-virus software up-to-date. Most anti-virus programs can detect and remove a virus that has infected your computer. You should run a virus scan every time you finish downloading files from Limewire.
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Step 2
Stop downloading if Limewire reports a corrupted file. Delete the file from your computer and look for a different version of the media file.
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Step 3
Watch the type of file that you download. Viruses from Limewire are often encrypted within executable files. Avoid running any files downloaded from Limewire that end in ".exe."
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Step 4
Consider the media type that you are downloading. The music files downloaded from Limewire are usually safer than games. This is due to the larger sizes of the game files.
Comments
virusmilitia said
on 1/16/2009 MP3 - 3,433 They send your title back, with no punctuation, no capital letters at all. May add words like: “Greatest Hits” or “(hot remix)”
virusmilitia said
on 1/16/2009 You can do that by going into your Windows Explorer program, opening up your song directories, and then clicking on the “Size” column. This will list the files by size, instead of by name, and you can quickly scan down to each of the suspect file sizes, and erase any that match.
If anyone knows of a way to find the name and address of the people creating these viruses, please post it to the web with a heading of “LimeWire Virus Creators”, so that I can do a Google search and pay them a visit.
Here are the current file types and sizes of the Virus files. The “comments” seem to be optional, so just stay away from anything that has a matching file size – to be safe.:
Wma - 2,503
Wma - 3,433
MP3 - 3,462
MP3 - 3,787 “greatest hits”
MP3 - 4,125 “MTV” and “CD Quality”
MP3 - 5,611 “(Unreleased Rare Track)”
MP3 - 5,611 “(unplugged version)”
MP3 -
virusmilitia said
on 1/16/2009 Obviously, someone has written a program that takes LimeWire searches, copies the name of whatever the user was looking for, takes one of their viruses and renames it, and then sends it back as a “match”. As you can see, they even add to the name by adding words like “greatest hits”, “(unplugged version)” “hot remix” and “MTV”
The real problem is that many people have just accepted these files, re-named them and saved them on their hard drives without having tried to play them first. If they ever do play them, then that computer is going to crash. But, until they play them, those files are still sitting on their hard drives, spreading the viruses even more.
The only thing you can do; is to make a list of the size of the files, from smallest to largest, and check all of your LimeWire music files against them.
You can do that by going into your Windows Explorer program, openi
virusmilitia said
on 1/16/2009 Obviously, someone has written a program that takes LimeWire searches, copies the name of whatever the user was looking for, takes one of their viruses and renames it, and then sends it back as a “match”. As you can see below, they even add to the name by adding words like “greatest hits”, “(unplugged version)” “hot remix” and “MTV”
The real problem is that many people have just accepted these files, re-named them and saved them on their hard drives without having tried to play them first. If they ever do play them, then that computer is going to crash. But, until they play them, those files are still sitting on their hard drives, spreading the viruses even more.
The only thing you can do; is to make a list of the size of the files, from smallest to largest, and check all of your LimeWire music files against them.
You can do that by going into your Windows Explorer program,