got this off another forum

Wondering if your favorite peer-to-peer file-swapping program has spyware bundled into it? Chances are, it does.

Infected
The following file-swappers are confirmed to have spyware or other unwanted parasites bundled into them:

KaZaa (offers a paid version without spyware)
Limewire
Audiogalaxy
Bearshare (offers a paid version without spyware)
Imesh
Morpheus
Grokster
Xolox
Blubster 2.x aka Piolet (Blubster 2.0 and higher and Piolet are adware and bundle other adware)
OneMX
FreeWire
BitTorrent (Only the Unify Media version. Other versions are clean to my knowledge. See warning below)
Also see this page which details what most of the above programs bundle.

Clean
The following file-swappers have been found not to have any spyware or other advertising parasites bundled into them:

WinMX (recommended)
Shareaza
E-Mule
Gnucleus
Blubster 1.2.3 (Later versions include adware)
Soulseek
BitTorrent (see warning below)
Direct Connect
Mute
EarthStation5 (Not recommended. See below)
Regarding EarthStation5
Earth Station 5 once contained code that would allow an attacker to delete any file off of your computer’s hard drive. Whether it was placed there intentionally or was a bug left in the code by accident is unclear. For now, we recommend against using it.

all of thoe have spyware. Its not always the program but what you download with them. Spyware/adware/viruses are getting much more better people can implement them into anything and not be noticed. Even I know how to do it with trojans. So just let it be known that althouth those programs dont have spyware, the things you download with them most likely do.

bittorrents are clean. kceasy are clean.

[quote author=“snak3y3z1001”]bittorrents are clean. kceasy are clean.

although the torrent file prolly is.
most of the programs or videos the torrent file downloads for u isn’t

[quote author=“yum114”][quote author=“snak3y3z1001”]bittorrents are clean. kceasy are clean.

although the torrent file prolly is.
most of the programs or videos the torrent file downloads for u isn’t

WinMx doesn’t have any Spyware….  It was an open-source project,  (still is I believe) that connects to a variety of networks.  Bit-torrent is probably your safest bet, some-times can be slow but other times fast as hell. 

I would recomend learning to use both IRC ( http://www.mirc.com ) and Torrents.

DC++ Hands down is the best.
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

You have to share way too much to get stuff though.

there are plenty of hubs that do not require any sharesize, though many hubs do require 5 or 10gigs

[quote author=“DoQrs”]there are plenty of hubs that do not require any sharesize, though many hubs do require 5 or 10gigs

Excatly, and usually the ones that dont require sharesize suck because no one shares.

Ares = my favorite
WinMx = one I use second most