My Limewire died...

ace1o1You can still get viri from MU and MF...It's not as safe as bittorrent like loony has been saying. :P
I have been using bittorrent a lot more than I ever used to. I can say that it is a lot better than direct download most of the time for me.

Yeah, the problem is RIAA, MPAA and the feds. They throw traps onto BT/P2P to catch "evil pirates" so i prefer direct downloads. As far as non-commercial virii, only getting warez/games for consoles along with a little common sense will keep you safe on direct download. Obviously, Final Fantasy 10 is not 452kb and an .exe.And I have never heard of commercial console virii, except for the diddy kong ds one that good ol' nintendy sent out.

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That would be interesting. What did it do?

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From what I hear, Nintendy released a fake version of the Diddy Kong Racing DS Rom soon after it was released into the internet, similar to the way DS dumpers do (start on a small server, expand, etc). Upon boot it would wipe the DS's BIOS and system files, making it unbootable. There may have been an AP message displayed while it does it, I don't remember.The only problem was that the small circle found out what it was after it destroyed their DSes and it didn't go much further. However, going around on a seedy romsite may lead you to Diddy Kong's Evil DS-malware.

I agree that bittorent is the safest way to p2p download files. Considering that the popular torrent sites have a comment section to say if a download is safe or fake. Although it's up to the end user to read that.

If you don't want viruses, use some commonsense. Never understood why people persist in using the term 'Virii' btw, makes no sense whatsoever.

virii is the correct plural form of virus.

No it isn't :) Technically speaking there is no plural, the 'es' plural is consider more proper ;)

Use of the form viriiUsage of virii within Internet communities has met with some resistance, most notably by Tom Christiansen, a figure in the Perl community, who researched the issue and wrote what eventually became referred to in various online discussions as the authoritative essay on the subject,[6] favoring viruses instead of virii. The impetus of this discussion was the potential irony that the use of virii could be construed as a claim of superior knowledge of language when in fact more detailed research finds the naive viruses is actually more appropriate. (See hypercorrection.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us-ius words are the only ones that should use the ii ending in common usage (Wii etc don't count).

personuser · #41Yeah, the problem is RIAA, MPAA and the feds. They throw traps onto BT/P2P to catch "evil pirates" so i prefer direct downloads.

This is the reason i have been using direct downloads instead of torrents.
I remember reading about it being safer for these reasons.
Is there any truth to this?
Or can i safely go back to my good old torrenting days?

common sense can be enough protection on torrents.

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You need to have some sort of tracker, or ip blocker or something, right?
I read about it awhile ago, but i never really delved into it, and just started using direct downloads.
I don't really download much nowadays anyway, but once in a while it's frustrating to look for a specific thing, while torrents are much easier to find.

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yea sorry about that

LimeWire is going down just like Pirate Bay because Anti-privacy people are kicking their asses (finally, ironic that it took them that long to take it down) I never used LimeWire because it was loaded with shit. 99.9999999999999% of their stuff is either viruses or shit.

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Make that 90% because I got alot of working Wii games from TPB.

piratebay isn't down.

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Also that.

Also I think he was talking about Limewire when he said 99.99(etc.)% was viruses and\or crap.

garychencool · #54LimeWire is going down just like Pirate Bay because Anti-privacy people are kicking their asses (finally, ironic that it took them that long to take it down) I never used LimeWire because it was loaded with shit. 99.9999999999999% of their stuff is either viruses or shit.

Limewire = pedophiles dream. I found child porn, incest porn, and beastality on LW.I switched to torrents after that. I had found fucked up shit already and i decided to get the hell away from LW before i found some necro porn.That said the most fucked up thing i found that i just had to get was a lil bit of DBZ hentai. Lets just say chichi was showing her son how much she loved him.