You Might Be Sharing More Than Music on Limewire

I found this video on Youtube put out by a local Fox news station on one of the dangers of Limewire, or other Gnutella network file sharing programs (I like Frostwire the best). This danger is not just corrupt files, and malicious software.

You see, when you first download and install these programs, many of you select your My Documents folder to share out. Why is that? Because that is where you keep everything else on your computer. Your pictures, your tax records, your secret passwords that you can't remember so you put them in a text file. You know, everything there is to know about you!

As this video shows, if you have your My Documents shared out on the Gnutella network, you need to remedy that quickly. Move all of your music, videos, pictures and anything else you want to share in a separate folder. For instance, I share everything out from a folder on my desktop called Frostwire. Another thing, which the video doesn't mention, is when you first setup the program, and it asks if you want it to scan your computer for files, always select no on that.

Take a look at some of the stuff they found:



Do you have any other important tips in regards to file sharing programs? Let us know in the comments.

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Break Away from Limewire

How many of you use Limewire to download music, software, videos and sometimes viruses? Millions I am sure. Limewire is a fantastic program for peer to peer file sharing. The only catch? It's not free. Limewire Pro costs $18.88. Limewire does have a light version but to get all of the good stuff, you have to pay for it.

Being as how I don't like to pay for software if I don't have to, I prefer to use a different Gnutella client for my file sharing goodness. I like Frostwire, an open source Gnutella client spun off from the community of Limewire.

You read that correctly. Frostwire was created by community members of Limewire? What for? Because Limewire was forced to implement copyright protection into their program to prevent you from sharing or downloading files without the proper license.

Frostwire has all of the same functionality, including the "Turbo Charged" connection without the cost. Also, it is skinable. You can download different skins to change the look and feel of Frostwire.

Save yourself a buck. The next time you decide to look for a file sharing program, save $20 and go for the open source solution. Get Frostwire!

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