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Re: Well that's a new trick

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From: richard
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:19
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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.
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