Okay i just downloaded limewire yesterday, and i here just downloading limewire won't give u viruses but its the stuff you download, like the songs ect, how can u tell what songs and stuff are viruses? i hear size of the song can tell, but like what size?? i need details!
you don't know, matter of luck
if a virus is ADDED to a file, that one might be a bit bigger than another one of the same song but some viruses replace a part of the song so that is not much to go on
games and software that is in ZIP format are a lot more likely to have viruses than songs are.
if you get an anti-virus program like Avast (free download and free to use )
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
it has sections which protect your PC in real time against various different things. Leaving all these on slows you down a lot, but you can turn on P2P (peer to peer, which is what Limewire is) just before you do any downloading then turn it off for web surfing.
this will check the files as they come in, and stop the download if there is a virus in it.
then you have to try from a different site.
i've noticed if there are huge lots of the same download they all have viruses in them…. a few people downloaded the first virus-y one, they can't use it but is stays on their shared folder, so becomes available to everyone else to download. Most downloads come in bits and pieces from several computers for faster downloading (Limewire puts them back together) so this is an excellent way of spreading viruses.
programs with viruses usually won't work, a lot of songs will.
if you don't want fulltime virus protection at least run a virus checker after a download session; you can speed it up by selecting only the shared folder for checking