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Version: FrostWire 4.13.5
"A little better than Limewire Pro"
Pros: Frostwire seems a little faster than Limewire pro at connecting and searching for files. Especially if your behind a router. You don't need to pay for Frostwire nor do you need to start surfing for a crack to get the same behavior as found in Limewire Pro. It can even Download from Bittorrent tracker sites so you can search on both the Gnutilla network as well as Bittorrent sites to get the quality files you want while the program automatically seeds the torrents for others to enjoy on the Bittorrent network. I suggest making a seperate folder for your torrents and share the torrent folder. Works well for Movies and some TV episodes as well. Hopefully the RIAA Mafia group can't ever kill Gnutilla as its a good netowrk since its serverless.
Cons: The gnutilla network does have spam thanks to anti p2p organizations out there. Always use PeerGuardian when you are running p2p apps to block out malicious spammers. Although its not 100% you'll still need to train your junk filter in order to block out these pesky spammers of Gnutilla. Ares Galaxy does seem to have fewer spam files on its open source network. Plus you'll have to go into the keyword filter and block .wma, .aif, WAV files from your audio searches. But you'll still get spam from some websites trying to sell you something via the Mp3's.
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Thank you from a rookie learning this stuff. Maybe you could assist me with this 'pre-conceived notion' as well...
I've always heard that P2P apps are very unsafe and that with the bit torrents I am less likely to pick up bad viruses?
Is this true? Feel free to respond here or to my profile. Thanks in advance!
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