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LimeWire PRO 5.3.6 (NEWEST VERSION)
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With LimeWire PRO You will Get:

» NO BUNDLED SOFTWARE OF ANY KIND

» Bittorrent Support Built-In New!

» Better Control Over Shared Folders New!

» System Tray Notifications New!

» Mojito DHT (Distributed Hash Table) Support New!

» TLS (Transport Layer Security) Support New!

» Ease of use - just install, run, search and download files

» Better Search Results

» Turbo-charged download speeds

» Connect To More Sources

» Special PRO only skin

» Spam blocker to filter junk results

» Publish your own files via Creative Commons licensing

» Faster downloads than ever

» PC or Mac compatible

» Integrated audio player and media library

» "Swarm" downloads from multiple hosts help you get files faster

» iTunes integration

» International Versions: Now available in many new language

» Automatic local network searches for lightning-fast downloads

» Directly connect to another computer

» Browse host feature - even works through firewalls



LimeWire PRO is a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Gnutella network. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License. Limewire was the first file sharing program to support firewall-to-firewall file transfers, a feature introduced in version 4.2, which was released in November 2004.

Written in the Java programming language, Limewire runs on any computer with a Java Virtual Machine installed. To facilitate installation for casual users, installation packages are available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and in the RPM format for Linux. Support for Mac OS 9 and previous versions has been dropped with LimeWire 4.0.10. The Windows version of the LimeWire installer includes a version of Sun Microsystems' Java installer which will download and install version 1.5 of the Java Runtime Environment if it detects the machine does not have a recent version of Java installed.

LimeWire uses the SHA-1 and tiger tree hash cryptographic hash functions to ensure that downloaded data is un compromised. Although researchers have identified possible vulnerabilities in the SHA-1 algorithm, because LimeWire does not rely on SHA-1 alone, these vulnerabilities do not have many adverse implications for LimeWire's verification of downloaded files.

There are two versions of the program; a basic, free version, and an enhanced version LimeWire PRO sold for a fee of US$24.95, or available to download for FREE from this Web site, which the developers claim offers faster downloads. Prior to April 2004, the free version of LimeWire was distributed with a bundled program called LimeShop (a variant of TopMoxie), which was considered by computer security experts to be spyware. Among other things, LimeShop monitored online purchases in order to redirect sales commissions to Lime Wire LLC. Un installation of LimeWire would not remove LimeShop. With the removal of all bundled software in LimeWire 3.9.4 (released on April 20, 2004), these objections were addressed.

Being open source, LimeWire has spawned several forks, including LionShare, an experimental software development project at Penn State University, and Acquisition, a popular Mac OS X–based Gnutella client with a proprietary interface. Researchers at Cornell University developed a reputation management add-in called Credence that allows users to distinguish between "genuine" and "suspect" files before downloading them. An October 12, 2005, report states that some of LimeWire's open source contributors have forked the project and called it FrostWire. The FrostWire project has a beta release, which is claimed to be equivalent in power to the paid version of Limewire. The FrostWire developers emphasize that they will never place any sharing-related restrictions on the client.

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