How can I check limewire songs for viruses?

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Armor

New member
No limewire songs have viruses. if you downloaded the new limewire 5.0 it might have a virus. The easiest way to tell is to download MCaffe,or Kasperky internet security. If you download anyone of these it will automatically pop up and tell you if there is a virus or bug.
 
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Kim

Member
FYI: Kevin's answer is just copied and pasted from the internet.

Now to the real issue...
Malware can only exist in Portable Executable (PE) files (without your system already being compromised by existing malware which would have had to have been PE files too).
PE files include those with extensions such as:
.cpl
.exe
.dll
.ocx
.sys
.scr
.drv

So therefore files excluding those just mentioned (.mp3, .jpg, etc) >>cannot<< be infected with malware. The closest thing to an infected mp3, etc. being infected with a malware would be if a method called Steganography was used..and even then, the malware would just be embedded without even being able to be executed, so the malware is useless anyway, at most it would just be scanned as malware by an Anti-Virus program. But as I said the malware would be unable to work.
 
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EdG

Member
You should understand you can check, but your anti-virus software may miss real new malware. Most users who get infected from limewire have anti-virus programs, and scan the files and still get infected.
 
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