# Limewire is done, who to use now? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 27, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038 "2010-10-27T21:53:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dreid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dreid/32/7388_2.png) [@dreid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dreid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/1 "2010-10-27T21:53:22Z")
whats this frostwire that I am hearing about? any other options? I miss my bearshare. ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/2 "2010-10-27T22:25:58Z")
Omg really? I’m always so shocked to hear people use limewire still torrents man, torrents. [Thepiratebay.com](http://Thepiratebay.com) ---
**Author:** ![tpgsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tpgsr/32/7374_2.png) [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/3 "2010-10-28T04:22:23Z")
[demonoid.com](http://demonoid.com) as well ---
**Author:** ![Wahoo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/wahoo/32/8265_2.png) [@Wahoo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wahoo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/4 "2010-10-28T04:41:00Z")
Morpheus jk This does suck though. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/5 "2010-10-28T04:47:15Z")
> [@tpgsr](#): > > [demonoid.com](http://demonoid.com) as well Been a member since shortly after they started…I rarely use anything else. Soulseek is a great program for music. Ask cougarspeed Limewire/Frostwire are the same thing different interface. Both are riddled with viruses and shouldn’t be used by ANYONE. 98% of the computers that come to see me, that have limewire, frostwire, etc. are infected. If you are downloading via P2P or torrents you better be sure you got some antivirus to back your ass up. I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials (free) and Malwarebytes (free, 29.95 for full active protection). I actually bought malwarebytes because it’s such a good program. If I’m unsure about a file/folder I’ve downloaded I always scan with malwarebytes and MSE before doing anything. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/6 "2010-10-28T06:25:33Z")
Torrents or now that YouTube has high def audio/video I just wrote a script to convert them to MP3s for the rare songs I want. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/7 "2010-10-28T06:35:19Z")
_cough_ signature based AV is dead ---
**Author:** ![Gl1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gl1/32/5471_2.png) [@Gl1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gl1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/8 "2010-10-28T07:14:14Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#): > > Been a member since shortly after they started…I rarely use anything else. > > Soulseek is a great program for music. Ask cougarspeed > > Limewire/Frostwire are the same thing different interface. Both are riddled with viruses and shouldn’t be used by ANYONE. 98% of the computers that come to see me, that have limewire, frostwire, etc. are infected. If you are downloading via P2P or torrents you better be sure you got some antivirus to back your ass up. > > I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials (free) and Malwarebytes (free, 29.95 for full active protection). I actually bought malwarebytes because it’s such a good program. If I’m unsure about a file/folder I’ve downloaded I always scan with malwarebytes and MSE before doing anything. QFT I recommend buying the free version of malwarebytes to all my customers. Edit: > [@LZ](#): > > _cough_ signature based AV is dead Most anti-viruses now use both signature and Heuristics, but IMO signature based is far from dead. ---
**Author:** ![SK360](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sk360/32/5933_2.png) [@SK360](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SK360)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/9 "2010-10-28T07:29:41Z")
Limewire was a cancer to the real music ripping scene. Torrents are not much better. If you care about quality in your pirating needs get a usenet/newsgroup account and go nuts 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/10 "2010-10-28T07:33:23Z")
> [@Gl@re](#): > > Most anti-viruses now use both signature and Heuristics, but IMO signature based is far from dead. Oh it is? Have you looked at any stats on comprise/malware in enterprise environments? lol Did you know the 99% of AV won’t detect malicious PDFs if you add a null character a a PDF header? yet it will still function just fine? Take a look at all the non targeted drive by attacks even the exploit packs people buy the payloads are re-encoded/packed on the fly each signature is completely different then the last. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/11 "2010-10-28T07:33:31Z")
the problem with torrents and newsgroups is that it doesn’t let you just go after one song that you have in mind. My fiance is always finding random songs she wants to download. Last X-mas she wanted to make a christmas song mix. She had all these ideas of songs she wanted, but you can’t find them on torrents. Boxxa’s idea of ripping from youtube might be the best bet for that. I believe theres even firefox plugins for that. ---
**Author:** ![Tunerfreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tunerfreak/32/7427_2.png) [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/12 "2010-10-28T07:38:25Z")
why were you still using limewire anyway, it is terrible > [@boardjnky4](#): > > the problem with torrents and newsgroups is that it doesn’t let you just go after one song that you have in mind. My fiance is always finding random songs she wants to download. Last X-mas she wanted to make a christmas song mix. She had all these ideas of songs she wanted, but you can’t find them on torrents. > > Boxxa’s idea of ripping from youtube might be the best bet for that. I believe theres even firefox plugins for that. what do you mean, torrents you can check and uncheck the items you want to download as long as they are not in a zip file or something ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/13 "2010-10-28T07:39:31Z")
I’m a newsgroups subscriber butr for single songs I use Shareaza. Open source, no shitware, and it connects to the Gnutella2, Gnutella1 (limewire), and eDonkey networks, and also does torrents and IRC. Much better than having to download a whole album and sift thru the crap. [http://shareaza.sourceforge.net](http://shareaza.sourceforge.net) ---
**Author:** ![SK360](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sk360/32/5933_2.png) [@SK360](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SK360)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/14 "2010-10-28T07:39:48Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > the problem with torrents and newsgroups is that it doesn’t let you just go after one song that you have in mind. My fiance is always finding random songs she wants to download. Last X-mas she wanted to make a christmas song mix. She had all these ideas of songs she wanted, but you can’t find them on torrents. > > Boxxa’s idea of ripping from youtube might be the best bet for that. I believe theres even firefox plugins for that. With newsgroups/usenet atleast you can use something like binsearch.info to find the individual file instead of a NZB from an indexing site. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/15 "2010-10-28T07:42:13Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > the problem with torrents and newsgroups is that it doesn’t let you just go after one song that you have in mind. My fiance is always finding random songs she wants to download. Last X-mas she wanted to make a christmas song mix. She had all these ideas of songs she wanted, but you can’t find them on torrents. > > Boxxa’s idea of ripping from youtube might be the best bet for that. I believe theres even firefox plugins for that. In most torrent apps you can select which items to download. Pending they are not zipped you can select which songs you want. I implore people to take a few minutes…setup soulseek and browse around there. It takes a little tweaking but for music, there is no better program. I’ll even let you browse my inventory 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gl1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gl1/32/5471_2.png) [@Gl1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gl1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/16 "2010-10-28T08:55:16Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > Oh it is? > > Have you looked at any stats on comprise/malware in enterprise environments? lol > > Did you know the 99% of AV won’t detect malicious PDFs if you add a null character a a PDF header? yet it will still function just fine? > > Take a look at all the non targeted drive by attacks even the exploit packs people buy the payloads are re-encoded/packed on the fly each signature is completely different then the last. I’m not saying signature based is all you need, but it’s part of the toolbox. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/17 "2010-10-28T10:10:12Z")
> [@Gl@re](#): > > I’m not saying signature based is all you need, but it’s part of the toolbox. It’s fundamentally broken 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/18 "2010-10-28T10:33:10Z")
> [@Tunerfreak](#): > > why were you still using limewire anyway, it is terrible > > what do you mean, torrents you can check and uncheck the items you want to download as long as they are not in a zip file or something > [@SK360](#): > > With newsgroups/usenet atleast you can use something like binsearch.info to find the individual file instead of a NZB from an indexing site. > [@ProgRocker](#): > > In most torrent apps you can select which items to download. Pending they are not zipped you can select which songs you want. I implore people to take a few minutes…setup soulseek and browse around there. It takes a little tweaking but for music, there is no better program. I’ll even let you browse my inventory 😉 So, you’re telling me that I can find Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Hanson on torrent and newsgroups? ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/19 "2010-10-28T10:42:52Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > So, you’re telling me that I can find Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Hanson on torrent and newsgroups? possibly :shrug:, If you can’t find it on Soulseek the song probably doesn’t exist. If I can download the whole Kekal discography (Indonesian Black Metal) on Soulseek, I’m sure you can find that song. Might take a little searching but it’ll come up. ---
**Author:** ![SK360](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sk360/32/5933_2.png) [@SK360](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SK360)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038/20 "2010-10-28T10:54:03Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > So, you’re telling me that I can find Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Hanson on torrent and newsgroups? 1. ``` [118300]-[#altbin@EFNet]-[Full]-[Hanson-MMMbop_The_Collection-(Retail) -2005-OSC]-[18/24] - "16-hanson-merry_christmas_baby-osc.mp3" yEnc (1/23) ALT-BIN a.b.sounds.mp3.complete_cd 237d ``` 2. ``` Christmas 08(1/34) "Hanson - White Christmas.mp3" yEnc (1/7) x-mas.angel a.b.sounds.mp3.christmas 350d ``` 3. ``` Christmas 08(1/34) "Hanson - What Christmas Means To Me.mp3" yEnc (1/14) x-mas.angel a.b.sounds.mp3.christmas 350d ``` 4. ``` Christmas 08(1/34) "Hanson - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree.mp3" yEnc (1/10) x-mas.angel a.b.sounds.mp3.christmas 350d ``` 5. ``` Christmas 08(1/34) "Hanson - Christmas Time.mp3" yEnc (1/15) x-mas.angel a.b.sounds.mp3.christmas 350d ``` 6. ``` Christmas 08(1/34) "Hanson - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).mp3" yEnc (1/13) x-mas.angel a.b.sounds.mp3.christmas 350d ``` [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/limewire-is-done-who-to-use-now/162038.md?page=2)