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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.


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.