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Re: Well that's a new trick

#3979
From: Bluuuue Rajah
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:43
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Lookout <mrLookout@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:19:10 -0500, richard <member@newsguy.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:19:05 GMT, Bluuuue Rajah <Bluuuuue@Rajah.>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>richard <member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>>>news:98onk45k9bascdid5ge2o2p808kom1d6ip@4ax.com: 
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:57:22 GMT, Bluuuue Rajah <Bluuuuue@Rajah.>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>>I just tried to download Darlele Love's excellent Christmas song,
>>>>>"All Alone This Christmas," with Limewire, and was surprised when
>>>>>it tried to install a virus on my PC.  Normally I'm quite adept at
>>>>>distinguishing the thinl disguised viri from the useful content,
>>>>>but this time the malware designers fooled me.  They managed to
>>>>>make the file lok like it had the correct length for a three minute
>>>>>pop song, and they managed to translate my search string "nobody
>>>>>alone christmas" into "Darlene Love - All Alone This Chritsmas."  I
>>>>>wonder how they did that, and what I should do (besides the obvious
>>>>>of keeping my AV s/w current) to identify the disguised viruses,
>>>>>when I'm downloading with P2P music. 
>>>> 
>>>> Limewire apparently uses a search enging similar to google.
>>>> In which any word in the search string is matched, not just the
>>>> phrase. so it found a match for "alone christmas". you probably
>>>> didn't look closely at the listing.
>>>
>>>Apparently you didn't look closely at my post, because I addressed
>>>this issue.
>>>
>>>> When I have done p2p and got plenty of hits, I usually sort the
>>>> list by artist.
>>>> 
>>>> So why go to limewire?
>>>> I found the tune on youtube with no problem.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdvjI9aUqhY
>>>> now rip the mp3 and no virus.
>>>
>>>Since when does Youtube post naked audio, with no attached video
>>>track? 
>>
>>Suggest then you head on over to www.youtubecatcher.com and find out
>>how easy it is to do.
> The correct title is All Alone ON Christmas. If you look at
> www.binsearch.info you would find it in several newsgroups in
> excellent condition
> http://www.binsearch.info/?q=all+alone+on+christmas&max=25&adv_age=99
&s
> erver= 

I got it.  All I had to do was uninstall and reinstall.
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Subject: Re: Well that's a new trick
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