Friday, November 25, 2005

Limewire File Sharing Program Exposes Hard Drives

The "default" installation of Limewire software allegedly exposes confidential files. Limewire says there is no security flaw.
Whatever.
I use it. Basically, you have to change the areas of your hard drive which you want to be visible to the program, you can find it in the "options" menu. You need to limit the amount of freedom a program like this has on your computer. It's great to get music and other files, but just be safe. Use a firewall, too; so you can monitor the program's activity as well.

read more | digg story

2 Comments:

Blogger Donn Edwards said...

The story is really sloppy journalism. Read why at http://donnedwards.blogspot.com/

11/25/2005 6:51 PM  
Blogger pknyc said...

hey,
thanks for the info.

11/25/2005 8:42 PM  

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