MP3 ???
Alright, I don't know anything about downloading MP3s. Can someone give me a crash course on this?
What are the chances of getting a virus?
a MP3 newbie
What are the chances of getting a virus?
a MP3 newbie
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If you are downloading a .MP3 file, I don't know of any way to pick up a virus. Just make sure you know what you are downloading. You can always scan with Norton or whatever before you open it.
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I hate Kazaa it fks up my computer and you get tons of adware placed on your computer.
Try the free edonkey2000 (google it), of download bittorrent from bittorent.com then go to torrent sites and click the files you want.
I could also reccomend some software which tracks changes to your registry and allows you to deny the changes before it happens.. I also have a program which monitors the programs which run on startup and modify/remove anything you dont want (spyware)
These programs together with antivirus would serverly limit your chances of pickin up a virus - i've never had one, but i'm a bit of a networking/security nerd
as far as mp3s i use torrent sites to find full albums.... you can download bitcomet which is a program that allows you to search/download/manage all your torrents with out the hastle of finding them on wesbites... (a torrent file is very small once you download that and load it in bitcomet it will go out and pull down all of the mp3s you need)
i'm sure a lot of that is unclear, esp. if youve never d/led mp3s before.... just ask for clarification if i lost you
Thanks
If you're looking to use torrents, like the_main said, BitComet is probably one of the best client out there.
Howveer, I do believe Limewire is the best peer-to-peer program aside from torrents.
FWIW, Kazza lite originally was free of spyware but is now ridden with it.
FOr anyone who hasn't done so, do yourself a favour and download a program like Spybot from http://www.safer-networking.org/ .
This program will scan and remove most known spyware from your computer, but may make some programs inaccessible.
Any suggestions?
A rar is an archive that contains multiple files within it and is compressed. So instead of downloading an album song by song, the user who posted the music for download used Winrar to compress a dozen songs into one file.
If you have Winrar installed on your system all you need to do is doubleclick it and you will see the contents of the file in the Winrar program and be able to extract them to mp3 from there. (Just like Winzip)
BTW it is silly to use RAR to compress mp3's or avi video's as these formats are already compressing the file so the savings are negligible. But this doesn't stop the posters of content. It just makes it a little more complicated for the people downloading the stuff.