jordan 11 Is It Safe To Limewire Your PC

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ore I begin, I just want to make something perfectly clear: NOTE TO ANY ATTORNEYS WHO MAY WORK FOR LIMEWIRE - I think that your clients' product is WONDERFUL! Aside from the wheel and the internal combustion engine, it's probably the SINGLE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT in the history of mankind. REALLY!... So please don't sue me.
Now that I've cleared that up we can get down to business. Some of these people have relatively minor infections and some have MAJOR PROBLEMS. Here's the pattern I've noticed, though (I just call 'em like I see 'em): When someone has a serious virus and/or spyware infection on their PC, they almost always have a copy of Limewire installed as well. Now, don't interpret that the wrong way. The Limewire software (assuming you get it from a legitimate source) is perfectly safe (Are all of the attorneys still paying attention?). So, if the question is posed to me "is it safe to install Limewire on my computer?", my answer is an unwavering "Yes".
This is where a lot of people get a bit confused about why their computer gets so badly infected in a relatively short period of time. That's too bad really [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because it's difficult to protect yourself from threats if you don't even know what those threats are or where they come from.
There, now that I have that off my chest, I feel much better.
The first thing I want to do before I go any further with this discussion is to let the folks at Limewire off the hook. They are not responsible for their users' reckless online activities any more than the people at Ford are responsible for their customers reckless driving. It's up to the end users to monitor their own activities and to become part of the solution instead of being part of the problem. It really wasn't my intention to single them out because most file sharing services are essentially the same. The only reason I mentioned these guys by name is that they are far and away the most popular service of this type operating today. Had I written this article a few years ago I probably would have the Napster people annoyed with me. So for the remainder of this discussion I will just refer to all of these services collectively as "file sharing services". Now all you lawyers can go back to what you were doing before, such as suing somebody (other than me).
Anyway, as I said before, most users of file sharing services may not completely understand how the file sharing process works. There seems to be this perception that there is some gigantic free music repository full of perfectly safe, virus free, downloadable content stored somewhere out there in cyberspace. I assure you that this is not the case. OK, you ask, then where do the file sharing services get all of this music that they offer for free downloads? I'm glad you asked. The answer is that they don't.
You see, file sharing services are in essence a very large peer-to-peer (P2P) network. When you join one of these services, you are sharing a portion of your computer with other members of the service and they are in turn sharing access to their files with you. Now, you may think that this is somewhat of a security risk [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but probably not a huge one, as these services upon installation of their software, designate a default folder on your PC to share on the network. The real threat with this type of network is in the files you download. Multiply this scenario by the hundreds of thousands of other P2P members and the MILLIONS of files being passed back and forth and you can see how this can quickly become a real threat to your PC.
So as a computer tech that deals with virus infested computers on a daily basis, I have to say that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND downloading your music from a "pay-per-track" service such as itunes or amazon.com. I only say this because from a PC security standpoint [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], using P2P file sharing is just too costly in the long run. Think of it this way, how many itunes could you have purchased with the $200 that you just gave to the computer repair guy after he cleaned u