washingtonpost.com

Just one more reason to block the site at the house.

Paperghost has more on Myspace woes here.

Yeah... almost all of my friends are addicted to MySpace (as well as Limewire ). There are only a few friends that I have who don't use MySpace and Limewire (they either have both or one or the other) which is pretty sad; and, despite my onslaught of advice to remove or stop going to, they still keep their attrocious habits (or at least most of them). Maybe these articles will help soften their minds...

I wouldn't hold my breath...people are stubborn by nature. Some might see the light, but I don't think it will change too many minds.

Well, I use Shareaza which uses Limewire on one of the networks and so far no infections whatsoever. As long as you're cautious and aware of what you're downloading and then running after DLing, I think it's perfectly fine to use P2P programs.
I posted another thread about being affected with malware while searching videos at www.youtube.com. It just goes to show that you must be careful at all times.

I agree that people are going to do what they want. All we can do is advise them of the potential dangers out there, suggest a different alternative. The final choice is up to them. I mean, in a manner of speaking, you can't help those that don't want to help themselves...especially when you explain to them the dangers...and then show them a safe alternative (if such exists). Just my $.02 worth...

And when the advice isn't taken, direct them to the HijackThis Logs and Analysis forum.

Exactly!!!!

I agree with Federer Express, file sharing programs can be used safely. I use Limewire fairly regularly (and the RIAA wouldn\'t be pleased I\'m sure ) and I have my security software (firewall, antispyware, antivirus) set to kill. That in conjuntion with wise downloading practices and I\'ve never experienced an instance of undetected malware (though a number of malware programs have been detected and killed immediately after downloading a file).

*awaits pummeling by other members with rubber chicken*

limewire sucks. torrents are where its at