Bearshare,Morpheus,etc......

[A Guy]

yes i have seen the article on bearshare on its hidden chart and stuff like that my question is say you install bearshare with the adware and then you get rid of it with a anti adware program does it keep coming back?


FREE STUFF HOORAY

[Bryce W]

It probably wont come back if you remove it, but chances are the removal of it will stop Bearshare from working. Prevention is always the best anti-spyware/adware method. Just dont install Bearshare :)

[gunslinger]

If you are going to do peer to peer, i'd say limewire for music and bittorent for everything else. Be very careful what you open, and scan each file twice with a good antivirus. If you can, download and open these files in a virtual machine first. That way if it does contain a virus/spyware/adware/malware, no big deal just nuke the virtual machine.

[greggh]

I have to disagree with the Limewire comment gunslinger. Limewire is a good way to get tons of spyware and viruses. We have run into it on a weekly basis, if not more. I would use Cabos for music. Its based on limewire:

Easy Search and Download Functionality

Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software. No spyware. No adware. Guaranteed.

Cabos provides simple sidebar user interface, firewall to firewall transfers, proxy transfers, Universal Plug and Play, iTunes + iPod integration, "What's New?" searches, international searches, and more.
System Requirements

Windows 2000 or later. Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later. Mac OS 8.6 or later.

http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/

[gunslinger]

never seen that one greggh, i'll have to give it a shot. looks clean and shiny (we like clean and shiny)

[Blues]

greggh between the common p2p file sharing I think I see the fewest problems on limewire users PCs but yes it is not clean it is not invulnerable. Bittorrent is all I use and it is clean so long as the sites you use are but that one you suggest looks cool if I ever need something besides Bittorrent Ill check it out.

[gunslinger]

Does anyone here know anything about utorrent leaking ip addresses to the IRAA? Something i was reading on another forum.

[greggh]

I heard a rumor like that. I also heard the rumor was started by developers of one of the other bittorrent clients. Trying to get people to stop using utorrent.

[Blues]

I looked into it a bit and what I found suggest a bug that happened only on torrents over 4GB. It was not reporting the right information to the tracker and reported excess information. People who know nothing just assumed this large chunk of data was reporting them to the RIAA and such. It was a bug that was fixed very quickly and people paniced about it. Those who knew anything of what it was doing and how it all works new that wasn't the case and new that it was just a major bug in a "stable" release. The fact they called it a stable release also got that release banned by many trackers becuase it would bombard the trackers with bad data.

[gunslinger]

so, all is right with my fave torrent program i hope

[tauzin23]

I actually use Frostwire every once and a while. It's almost exactly the same as Limewire... even looks almost alike, and yes it's free - not bundled with any spyware either.

and it does work with Vista too. :)

[gunslinger]

I tried Cabos. So far it seems to work really well. Its small simple and fast. I also made it portable and put it on my usb flash drive, works great.

[breadtrk]

I like Shareaza and BitComet.

All of them can download junk, trojans, and viri. It is not your download tools fault, it is most likely your own fault.

here are some tips from an experienced filesharer.

Let your search run for at least half a day, refreshing it during this time if you need to.

Sort the sources colum with the most sources on top

delete the files with 10,000 or more sources as they are most often bots spreading trojans

Download the file version you are looking for that has the most sources, guys don't share junk if they know it is junk so if it has lots of sources is is probably a good file.

ALWAYS< ALWAYS< ALWAYS SCAN THE FILE WITH ANTIVIRUS< ANTISPYWARE BEFORE OPENING THE FILE!!!!! ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS!

Run something like Spyware Terminator that alerts when anything tries to run on its own or make any changes to your registry. If you wanna download, you have to run protection, lots of protection, get more ram, get a junker machine from your granny and use it for downloading.

NEVER FILESHARE ON YOUR MAIN MACHINE> EVER!

Don't be a damn leech! Someone is risking getting busted so you can get the file, it is your duty to take your chances too and share the file for awhile after you get it. SHARE YOUR FILES

If you don't get or understand any of the above, forget about filesharing because I make lots of money off guys just like you.