Naota Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Original Article Here - New Limewire Has Built In Anti-virusIt is no secret that with file sharing comes lots of viruses. LimeWire, a once glorious file sharing program, has been getting worse and worse. There are almost no searches that you can do without running into corrupted downloads, viruses, and random advertisement files.In LimeWire 5.5.0 Beta and above, they have incorporated AVG Anti-Virus. AVG runs silently in the background, requiring zero intervention. It even downloads the latest definitions via LimeWire automatically. It comes enabled by default and even scans partially downloaded files.Theoretically, if all users upgrade to LimeWire 5.5.0 beta and above, all the viruses would be eliminated. In the real world this won’t happen but it sure as heck will help. I welcome this add-on for sure, although I would’ve preferred if they gave the user the choice whether to delete the file or not, as they currently do not.Good idea I think... except for the fact it deletes without my permission! :angry: I'll have to make a suggestion to them since they incorporated my last one maybe they can do this one. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 Hmm... I apologize for this in advance Mod... I wasn't sure what topic this should fall in! It seems like Security, Software News and File-sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sl@pSh0ck™ Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Hmm... I apologize for this in advance Mod... I wasn't sure what topic this should fall in! It seems like Security, Software News and File-sharing.You have it in the right place, no worries man! ;)EDIT:deleted the one in software news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMANTICGUY50 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Downloaded it and it was not the PRO version- When will that be available. Thanx.; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 I dunno .. but why did they pick AVG.. AVG is complete crap.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 I dunno .. but why did they pick AVG.. AVG is complete crap..Give me Kaspersky instead! =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dcs18 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Personally, I think it's not a rocking idea for any application to be integrating an anti-Virus (any anti-Virus.) :nono: Hope LimeWire has an option to disable the ant-Virus. :unsure:BTW, this looks like a beta. Latest final is 5.4.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sl@pSh0ck™ Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I think they did it in purpose (choosing AVG antivirus) the more false positive the safer limewire users are :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 Personally, I think it's not a rocking idea for any application to be integrating an anti-Virus (any anti-Virus.) :nono: Hope LimeWire has an option to disable the ant-Virus. :unsure:BTW, this looks like a beta. Latest final is 5.4.7Yeah it's 5.5.0 beta and above. You can disable it... I know I did. I am happy about it just because so many users don't have an anti-virus so it makes search results awful cause there are so many fake videos, etc.to filter through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dcs18 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The possibility to disable the AntiVirus would make it endearing across all levels of Users. :yes::think: . . . . . . . do I forsee another "How To Uninstall AVG Completely From Your LimeWire" tutorial :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Posted February 20, 2010 Author Share Posted February 20, 2010 The possibility to disable the AntiVirus would make it endearing across all levels of Users. :yes::think: . . . . . . . do I forsee another "How To Uninstall AVG Completely From Your LimeWire" tutorial :POh I think so. lol. If it puts any extra processes on my computer I am going to scream! Btw thanks for the windows defender tutorial. =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dcs18 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 The LimeWire people seem to be working hard on this one. Glad to note 3 to 4 updates rolled out in the past 52 hours. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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