[svlug] limewire on Linux

[Skip Evans]

Hey all,

A friend of mine wanted to download some stuff 
using our Windows machine here and limewire, which 
I had heard has some serious virus/spyware issues 
on Windows (I don't keep up with Windows stuff, to 
be honest, but this is what I've heard), so I was 
dubious.

I do see they have a Linux version, but my 
dubiuosity remains stalwart. (Okay, so dubiuosity, 
as the King's English goes, may be questionable, 
but I'm kind of proud of getting stalwart in there.)

Googling I found this on gentoo.org:

"A remote attacker can craft a specific Gnutella 
GET request or use directory traversal on magnet 
requests to read arbitrary files on the system 
with the rights of the user running LimeWire."

But this seems like a pretty typical example of 
the kinds of security holes found in software on a 
regular basis.

All other issue aside, does anyone know of any 
technical reasons to steer clear of limewire on Linux?


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