spyware in a program
well i have limewire for linux. i wanted to know if it has spyware like the windows version does. i dont remember what program the windows version has.
if the linux version of lime wire has spyware what is it and can it be removed? i never really messed with it. it is going on a friends system if it is ok. if it is not ok and i cant remvoe the spyware what easy to use P2P programs are avalible to linux? |
well i never used limewire nor never will, but i have read that LimeWire promised their
"customers" that they will/did remove the spyware that used to exist in their past versions, and no longer will exist in version 4.0 for both linux and windows ... |
imo limewire is just slow and not-that-good-thing...with spyware or not :) I don't actually know any easy-to-use and good (at the same time) p2p programs, except for KaZaA for Windows (but that's just a gift-package full of stuff you don't want to come over to your pc and say hello)..and that wasn't that good either..
anyway, I'd suggest you try either gtk-gnutella (that suddenly stopped working on my machine some time ago? it's quite ok, or rather was, though) and dcgui-qt which is a direct connect client for linux. not that easy to use, but if you go to it's website they'll teach you quickly to use it easily :) that beats almost every other file sharing app there is.. except that I don't need such apps :) but if that's left out of the count, dcgui-qt is a thing that's good to learn. |
I would use gift daemon and giFTcurs or either Apollon. They are both great clients.
Apollon is GTK+ and giFTcurs is ncurses based. gift daemon which they both use have plugins to access the fasttrack, OpenFT, and Gnutella network. Works great for me. |
Get Nicotine, a soulseek client, which is excellent.
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