[Kaylee Frye]

Oh come on. Anybody can right click on the file before opening it and run a quick virus search. And if you're getting executables anyway, you better know you're putting your computer at risk. These viruses can't be passed along with music files. And (at least with Winmx), you won't get any files downloaded that you didn't specifically click on to download.

People go on and on about viruses magically appearing on their computer from some internet-type software (it ranges from IE to Winmx to Instant Messenger), but honestly, unless you're doing something stupid (like actually allowing people to just put things on your computer), there is no way to just magically get a virus from any of these kinds of software.

Sorry for going off there, but people's fear of the unknown and viruses just gets old to me.

[phantomworker]

Spyware and ad ware? I now use the Proxomatron to stop pop ups, but before whenever I accessed lyrics websites, I got a message saying that 'pups' were downloaded to my harddrive and I had to manually delete them. My virus software McAfee wouldn't automatically delete the 'pups'.

Glad to hear you don't have any such problems. Which reminds me, time to run another virus check soon.

[phantomworker]

How ironic! I just got a 'pup' alert after posting that message. How did THAT happen?!