LimeWire 4.12.8 User Reviews

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• 854 out of 911 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: LimeWire 4.12.8

  "LimeWire is safe and very FAST at downloading music"

  by goldengreeke on June 25, 2006

  Pros: I noticed the last two reviewers were complaining about viruses in the software files. LimeWire is safe if you know what you are doing. I am going to explain one more time how to use Limewire. LimeWire has TONS of search results, TONS of hosts, and lightning fast downloads. With broadband you can download 50 popular songs in about 10 minutes or less. Some songs take less than 10 seconds! You can also chose which host has the fastest connection to download from. T3 is the fastest, followed by T1, Cable/ DSL, and Modem. LimeWire is also very good at finding Full length feature films, videos, games, and software products. LimeWire Has no ads or popups to distract you. If you are downloading just music, you shouldn't have any problems. But if you are downloading games, movies, or other software products,try to know the correct size, and NEVER download a file that is smaller than 1 MB. It will be a virus. Also never download an exe file..only RAR files, and always scan with your virus protection. Some of these small virus files are sent by the publishers,( because they feel we should buy their product instead of getting it for free) , and some by sick perks who think it is a joke to give you a virus. As far as spyware, most p2p apps are considered spyware by many antispy programs. If your spy cleaner detects LimeWire as spyware...just uncheck the box or add it to the always ignore list, sometimes called the White list. Hope this answers your questions. Happy Downloading! goldengreeke

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• 194 out of 217 people found this review helpful

  4 stars

  Version: LimeWire 4.12.8

  "NIce sharing program"

  by Yellow69 on June 24, 2006

  Pros: Okay.... its got good music downloads and some movies which are really good.

  I recommend this program though for music downloads because this has got A LOT of music files and basically all of them are mp3.

  Cons: Okay... this is the con... in the zip and EXE files... THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY VIRUSES.... each one of them is basically an virus.. I truly recommend this for only music and movie downloads. Be prepared for an virus attack if you download any zip file or rar or any EXE

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• 185 out of 272 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: LimeWire 4.12.8

  "With over 15 billion files, and 240 million users, you are sure to find what you"

  by merlot_1 on July 30, 2006

  Pros: LimeWire is the most used and fastest File Sharing Program (P2P) in the world! Easy to use - just setup, search, and download. iTunes compatible, and no spyware or adware. Download music, movies and software - Free! Try it, you will be happy!

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• 50 out of 57 people found this review helpful

  4 stars

  Version: LimeWire 4.12.8

  "Pretty Fast if you want MP3s and Movies."

  by l0n3w01f on September 7, 2006

  Pros: Good P2P client, useful if your downloading lots of mp3s and movies the speed is really amazing too. There are lots of users online so you won't have problems finding files.

  Cons: Most Softwares are either fake or have spyware/virus. I would prefer that you use this only for Mp3 or Movies.

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• 40 out of 44 people found this review helpful

  4 stars

  Version: LimeWire 4.12.8

  "Nice p2p program"

  by godsmurf2005 on September 4, 2006

  Pros: Its a classic p2p file sharing program. It used to cause a lot of problems with spyware/viruses but not anymore. Its good for downloading music and videos and other media.

  Cons: However NEVER download programs or any compressed files (.zip, .rar etc) because they may contain some nasty stuff. Try limewire pro, its even better :)

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