Limewire is written in Java, and will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Sun, and other computing platforms.
No wonder I love Java. It has built in security (runtime environment).
This program is heavily tested by me. There is file confirmation, warnings about duplicate downloads, and is entirely, I mean entirely, configurable.
I run two heavy duty firewalls, anti-virus and reg monitors, plus spyware monitors and scanners. Several net admins that I know use this one, so I feel vindicated. I haven't had any suspicious net activity from Limewire. None. No illicit connection attempts, no incoming, nothing. Even FireFox gives me shit to deal with (outgoing, when browser isn't running, incoming on esoteric ports).
There are details for each result in your search. It is extremely easy to compare results and see the size of download, and go T3 and you get 250 - 500 kbs. Multiple hosts also give these speeds.
Two warnings. Any file that = 119 kb is a virus. Also, if you play a song and it wants to get DRM aquisition through WMP, kill that. It will try to download a "Play.exe" and that is trojan.
Pretty much common sense. My AV (AVG commercial) and my firewall (netVida) block this shit, but just pay attention.
This happens about once in 25 to 50 downloads, but so what. Easy to stop.
No spyware, no attempts to connect to a remote server, absolutely nothing bundled with this P2P software.
You get asked to upgrade every time you launch it. Fair enough. That is all the hassle you ever get, and I may upgrade to Pro just because this has been a consistently ethical program for several years. Consistently.
LimeWire - Gnutella Client
Bit torrent built in. Find a song, and the album it is on shows up in a choice pane. 128 bit encryption, full support and reporting.
Try Jann Arden, U2, or my personal fave, Sevendust 'Licking Cream'. Anything, I have been extremely surprised at how many obscure or old bands and songs show up in plenitudes. For instance; terry jacks, lobe, Dr hook.
Haven't even mentioned the vid selection.
Jan 5, 2008
Jan 4, 2008
Best Free Firewall I have ever tested
Test #1This Internet Common Ports Probe attempts to establish standard TCP Internet connections with a collection of standard, well-known, and often vulnerable or troublesome Internet ports on YOUR computer. Since this is being done from our server, successful connections demonstrate which of your ports are "open" or visible and soliciting connections from passing Internet port scanners.
Test #2Determine the status of your
system's first 1056 ports
This Internet service ports "grid scan" determines the status — Open, Closed, or Stealth — of your system's first 1056 TCP ports.
32 ports, represented by each horizontal row, are probed as a group. The results are posted as the next set of ports are probed.
During off-peak hours the entire scan requires just over one minute.
For guaranteed accuracy, the scanning time will increase during peak usage when many people are sharing our scanning bandwidth.
A scan of a stealthed system is up to four times slower since many more probes must be sent to guarantee against Internet packet loss.
The test may be abandoned at any time if you do not wish to wait for the scan to finish.
You may hover your mouse cursor over any grid cell to determine which port it represents, or click on the cell to jump to the corresponding Port Authority database page to learn about the port's specific role, history, and security consequences. (Depress SHIFT when clicking to open new window and allow unfinished test to continue.)
I came across this a month ago. It is free, and has all the settings to allow or deny or ask your permission for every single network connection;logs of activity,list of all programs on your computer - it won't even let anything make an update connection without my permission - that you can set or modify any time.
Most importantly, I get several attacks every hour (connection attempts) that get blocked and a simple alert notifies when this happens. All ports, for instance:
Funny, I got a box running Linux on this network.
In any event: http://www.netveda.com/downloads/index.htm
Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.
Test #2Determine the status of your
system's first 1056 ports
This Internet service ports "grid scan" determines the status — Open, Closed, or Stealth — of your system's first 1056 TCP ports.
32 ports, represented by each horizontal row, are probed as a group. The results are posted as the next set of ports are probed.
During off-peak hours the entire scan requires just over one minute.
For guaranteed accuracy, the scanning time will increase during peak usage when many people are sharing our scanning bandwidth.
A scan of a stealthed system is up to four times slower since many more probes must be sent to guarantee against Internet packet loss.
The test may be abandoned at any time if you do not wish to wait for the scan to finish.
You may hover your mouse cursor over any grid cell to determine which port it represents, or click on the cell to jump to the corresponding Port Authority database page to learn about the port's specific role, history, and security consequences. (Depress SHIFT when clicking to open new window and allow unfinished test to continue.)
Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.
I came across this a month ago. It is free, and has all the settings to allow or deny or ask your permission for every single network connection;logs of activity,list of all programs on your computer - it won't even let anything make an update connection without my permission - that you can set or modify any time.
Most importantly, I get several attacks every hour (connection attempts) that get blocked and a simple alert notifies when this happens. All ports, for instance:
- Incoming connection blocked 23410:
Hewlet Packard HP-UX Portable File System Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Incoming connection blocked 49360:
The Dynamic and/or Private Ports are those from 49152 through 65535 - Incoming connection blocked 38434:
# 38204-39680 Unassigned
Funny, I got a box running Linux on this network.
In any event: http://www.netveda.com/downloads/index.htm
Jan 1, 2008
Dear Americans
HNY! Let's talk about anything, as long as it happens in the US!!!!!
I bet that within dayz, it will be another 10 months, giver or take, 'till you vote. Within minutes, someone will change their mind about who they will vote for. How breathtaking, I cannot stand the suspense to see if a poll will show if there has been a new poll about how different opinions lie from dozens of minutes ago, give or take margin of error plus methological irrelevancies, 99 times out of 99 plus or minus and fuck off I am trying to eat breakfast.
I bet within minutes, people die from poverty in the US, but that does not reflect on the viability of any twenty candidate, so who gives a fuck.
If it ain't what Clinton ate for breakfast, and what the polls think about that, it is irrelevant.
You have the most insipid and vacuous stunned fucks running for your leadership, and you don't even get mad, you just choose between them!!
There is nothing more stupid than that. Nothing.
Collectively speaking, as a stunned bunch of idiots, that is the U.S.
I bet that within dayz, it will be another 10 months, giver or take, 'till you vote. Within minutes, someone will change their mind about who they will vote for. How breathtaking, I cannot stand the suspense to see if a poll will show if there has been a new poll about how different opinions lie from dozens of minutes ago, give or take margin of error plus methological irrelevancies, 99 times out of 99 plus or minus and fuck off I am trying to eat breakfast.
I bet within minutes, people die from poverty in the US, but that does not reflect on the viability of any twenty candidate, so who gives a fuck.
If it ain't what Clinton ate for breakfast, and what the polls think about that, it is irrelevant.
You have the most insipid and vacuous stunned fucks running for your leadership, and you don't even get mad, you just choose between them!!
There is nothing more stupid than that. Nothing.
Collectively speaking, as a stunned bunch of idiots, that is the U.S.
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