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hi, i know there is a page somewhere which tells you this but i cant find it. what is the best spy-free p2p networking program to use. i use bearshare but im pretty sure thats infested! thanks.

ps is edonkey any good?
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Here is the site to find out:

http://www.spywarein...m/articles/p2p/

I use Shareaza, I find that really good

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thanks for ur reply. is there a lot of sources and content yeah?

cheers
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Your welcome.

Glad that I can help

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ok it says im behind a nat router or firewall, how do i fix that? i have windows firewall on but i have it ticked as an exception so it should be ok. also, i have a 205 voyager adsl, do i need to disable anything in that to allow connections to it? thanks
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ok it says im behind a nat router or firewall, how do i fix that? i have windows firewall on but i have it ticked as an exception so it should be ok. also, i have a 205 voyager adsl, do i need to disable anything in that to allow connections to it? thanks

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Whichs software are you using? (p2p)
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tried that shareaza one. bearshare used to wokr fine tho for some reason
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Are you using sharaza not or bearshare?
What firware are you using?

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my bad to budge in, but do ya'll know if WINmx is any good, compared to those programs ya'll are using?
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my bad to budge in, but do ya'll know if WINmx is any good, compared to those programs ya'll are using?

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For me personally, I think that winmx is ok.

But it really comes down to what you would like to use.

But if you are not sure what to use that has not spyware in it, check out this site:

http://www.spywarein...m/articles/p2p/

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Win mx is used for primarily downloading illegal downloading we cant support this or reccomend it.
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thanks for ur reply. is there a lot of sources and content yeah?

cheers

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I find that there are alot of souces to download from, using shareaza you can can connect to:

Gnutella2
Gnutella1
eDonkey
and Bit Torrent

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