26 replies to this topic

[JeffS]

Is there such an animal as a spyware and adware free Peer to Peer network. I've been using K-lite 2.7 and I have been having problems locating the files I want. I used to use Ares before I reformatted but I got tons of spyware from it, but there was much more files found during searches.

[snlildude87]

You can use an open source peer-to-peer application to insure that there are no backdoors. I can think of two open source and free p2p apps at the moment: Shareaza and BitTorrent

[CrashCore]

I would suggest using Shareaza out of the two snlildude87 mentioned, but I would suggest you also you WinMX. I use both because what one can't find, the other can most of the time. I started out with WinMX, but I like Shareaza better now, because the downloading is faster. The searching seems to be faster with WinMX, but lately I find a file with, let's say, 100 sources, and it will sit there claiming to be "connecting", but it never does. I've tried this with 40 downloads in a row and it did the same thing. I made sure I was connected and everything. Well, I would suggest Shareaza strongly.

[spawn_syxx9]

I would have to say that Limewire has been very safe for me. I have never goten one wyrm or virus or even a file that wasn't what I was looking for from them.

[clagnol]

I recommend emule. They allow you to search for archives (i.e. RAR and ZIP files), which is helpful when trying to download full albums or other kinds of files that normally come in collections.

[fsastraps]

well there is mIRC and URL=http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1]eMule[/URL] those are true peer to peers, and the connections are usually pretty fast if you got cable connection or better, but you do need to learn how to use them here is a good tutorial for IRC http://www.mirc.com/irc.html, there are others out there that might be beter. Just look for them.

[sandymc]

It's almost impossible to find P2P application that is secure, since you will always face another person in another edge of the world that they might be a hacker, since you're sharing you're file, it is not impossible for they who are expert to gain information about your ip address and any other information... even worse, i have heard that someone can have remote access to others computer just because he is using iMesh..

[Saint_Michael]

oh oh oh oh i have a suggesting don't bother using it p2p at all its took months to clean out my compute when using kazaa yeah i might get rream but hey FREE PORN

[MidnightDevil]

I use emule plus and dc++ with reverse connect, no problems with spyware at all.

[bjrn]

If you stick to open source apps, you should be faily safe from spy- and adware. If they put spyware (or adware) in an open source app, people would notice, because people read the code.

So, stay away from Kazaa and exeem and anything else close-sourced. That should get you a good bit on the way.


But then you can of course be vulnerable to p2p worms and so on. Oh it never ends!