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Tholley
May 30th, 2009, 05:47 PM
I just had a question about Malware from Limewire. I have used limewire for years in Windows and for the most part can tell the legit downloads from the bad ones.

But just running limewire, installs "Grokster" which is some kind of spyware, adware, and/or bloatware. I always run my CA spyware and delete the Grokster file (and any others found) immediately after closing. I don't have that luxury in Ubuntu.

I know viruses are mostly a non issue, but does anybody know if Grokster affects Ubuntu or not? Is there a way to check for spyware?

Thanks!
HermanAB
May 30th, 2009, 07:58 PM
How do you intend to run it - on Wine?

It is very easy to check for spyware activity using tcpdump or ngrep. Spyware will never get far in Linux.
Tholley
May 30th, 2009, 08:19 PM
[quote=HermanAB;7372826]How do you intend to run it - on Wine?

Limewire has a linux (.deb) download on thier website. Works good.
Tholley
May 30th, 2009, 10:45 PM
I'm still new at Linux.
I showed to have tcpdump already installed, and I installed ngrep, but how do I run them?
HermanAB
May 31st, 2009, 07:02 AM
Just read the man pages. Pretty easy to use:
$ sudo tcpdump -A -s 256 -i eth0

This one is useful when you cannot remember your login to your email account:
$ sudo ngrep -x host 192.168.1.10 password

Then refresh your email program - la voila!
Liuxurong
May 31st, 2009, 05:50 PM
Well... Thanks!
MechaMechanism
May 31st, 2009, 10:09 PM
What about Frostwire?
MegaNinjaDeth
June 1st, 2009, 05:07 AM
What about Frostwire?
Frostwire is a more convient alternative.

Torrents are the best.
bitf
June 2nd, 2009, 03:59 AM
LimeWire is Nagware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagware).
Does anyone know Why frostwire isn't in Add/Remove Programs?