Umm, not sure really it was a few months back, forgot about it, but i don't believe anything changed, wouldn't a virus scan rid the problem?

And windows media player came up, but nothing happened after

Okay well AVG granted is a good tool to detect an infection, however, they dont find everything! Thats a key thing to remember.

Think about it, in order to find every piece of malware (the overall name for virus', spyware, trojan, worm etc...) the online database in which the program uses to detect these infections need to somehow include every piece of malware. Basically thats near impossible.

But unless you notice anything obvious I wouldnt become paranoid that you may indeed be infected

Well I've been quite paranoid since i had this system lol.. it had no protection, as i didn't really know much about computers.

It's always been slow, but i think thats down to a slow processor, memory etc. And i have some pop-ups, but not many.

alot of people slag of limewire in here i think its great and av never had any trouble with it

Bit of common sense is all you need with torrent/P2P software. Although there are a lot of dodgy files about these days.

Isnt limewire illegal?

Technically not.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_downloading_songs_from_Limewire_illegal_or_legal

Well it is and it isnt...
I'm confuzed :S

If you're downloading copyrighted material, for instance the new Killswitch album. Thats illegal.
Some local un-heard of band not so.

Copyrighted material is illegal to download, but not illegal to put on the system.

If you're not sure, don't use it.

kk ta that explained it.

my limewire isnt working :( it wont connect. if opend torent and stuff ut nah

your better off asking spinner he seems to be the computer whizz of funky pool

Spinner if you read this i need assistance

Updated your firewall recently? Or has it just randomly stopped working?

either, use a program like mcafee to do a full system scan because it sounds like malware or spyware, ive had the same problem so i recommend backing up the important stuff on your computer i.e. working songs, programs and pictures etc, and then re - installing your windows system, this will put your computer back to its original state when you first got it and then you can jut upload all your personal files etc, hope that helps

Well, firstly, limewire and torrents are completely different systems.

The probable cause is your firewall blocking the programs access. Just make sure its on the list of exceptions.

IIRC, Limewire being Peer to Peer (P2P) takes the file from one source directly and torrents just take it from a few places at once and jigsaw it together?

Limewire is indeed a P2P sharing client, which as oli said retrieves the file from one source, the Gnutella Network.

I've been doing a bit of a reading up on both Torrents and P2P sites and the best definition of a Torrent is as follows.



Quoted from:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-torrents.htm

Hope this helps clear things up

Whoop. My simpleton 6pm brain worded something almost legibly. Excellent. There is hope for me yet.

I can't really see why people still bother using Limewire. Soulseek is leagues ahead in terms of number of search results and ability to download whole albums. Even if you don't like Soulseek, Frostwire is basically a free version of Limewire Pro (it even looks the same).