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Re: Well that's a new trick

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From: Lookout
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:55
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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?

The audio quality sucks on YouTube.
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&server=
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