[jmault]

Just got back to school and wanted to start taking advantage of the connection. Just a few issues of concern...I heard that Limewire can "mess up" your disk permission, is this true. Also was wondering what apps. are out there that any of you reccomend?
Thanks

[warra]

yea i heard that about limewire too, and ive even read somewhere that it caused peoples's computers to crash, so i used to use acquisition. its a nice app, updated frequently, but, for me at least, has trouble connecting and is slow. i finally got frustrated enough to download limewire and i have not had a problem since. ive probably have been using it for about 4 months or so with no problems. the only thing that i dont like is it has a lot of threads when it is running and takes up a lot of system resources. But if your connection is quick, you can get what you need and close it quick enough.

[Art Vandelay]

Keep in mind that many schools either block or throttle p2p connections.

[Chuckit]

I've neither heard nor seen any such thing. (With regards to the original post, that is — I've definitely seen P2P blocking!)