Monday, 5th February 2007Urgent Limewire Update - Download and Install Now (Gnutella Network)

Many Gnutella & Limeware users are confused by the

If you are regular user of Limewire or one of the various other Gnutella peer to peer clients you will not doubt have seen this message appear in your search results on occassion:

Urgent Limewire Update - Download and Install Now (or similar)

Whatever you do, don't download or install it - its a virus.

If you want to avoid viruses ridden downloads on peer to peer networks, its a good idea to avoid ALL downloads under a 1mb. Think about what your downloading - if its MP3s then your highly unlikely to find a decent quality MP3 under 3mb anyway - if its a full length movie, that figure jumps to 500mb+.

Also - bearing in mind that no-one on the peer to peer network knows you - its worth filtering out all results with "urgent" in the title, after all - how do they know what you urgently need - these are generally unwanted viruses, adverts, spyware, etc.