I've heard that both Bearshare and Limewire contain spyware. With that said, is there a similar *lite* application that offers the same content without the spyware?

I think Limewire is free from spyware, atleast the recent versions. Cannot be to sure though ...

Instead of a "lite" version, you can look for other clients which access the gnutella network, like shareaza for windows or gtk-gnutella on unix.

Limewire is easy to use and really good for single songs. Just run spybot after you install it. should remove most of the spyware.
but for whole albums, use Bit Torrent.

Morpheus 5.0 rocks. Its quite good with download unlike KaZaA Lite which has now become very sluggish. Get it at http://www.morpheus.com/beta/ . Its a must have...lol...

Warning: Morpheus has a memory leak and is a bit buggy. However it beats all other P2P networks hands down (except for bittorrent)

I basically need a P2P program that would find decent quality songs, and of course software.

I recommend azureus for software and Morpheus 5 for songs

Is azureus free of spyware?

yes azureus is free of spyware

I like LimeWire for my songs. I have a better time find the songs I want & rates are very decent for me.

If you can get a Torrent for Limewire Pro, I suggest you do. That's what I did, and I am very pleased.

other then BT im pretty fed up with the P2P networks... The only one I have installed right now is Morpheus Pro 5.0 and even that kind of sucks... blaahh they can all bite me lol

Edit: Got so cought up in my rant that I forgot the reason I came to this thread... I tried bear share and while I kind of liked it they didnt have any of the files I was looking for of course I only tried like 20 different files....

I am going to stay away from all p2p programs from now on. With the RIAA going after all their customers. Now is not the time.

agreed with the above totaly.... also I am deliberatly not buying new DVD's or CD's in sort of a protest of all the BS. Hmmm although renting from block buster games and DVD's I dont realy have to buy... lol

Correct! Ten points to Suranwrap

RIAA would'nt step into *third world countries* ... Lucky us...

lol nice to know that some of the music that the RIAA decides isnt hot anymore will still be availiable some where on earth.... I mean I listen to stuff that just isnt played on the radio and finding a CD of it just isnt realy an option (going to Wal Mart or a CD store is a joke to me 60% of the time they have 0 of the albums from the bands im looking for and the other 40% of the time they have like 1CD thats not even what im looking for....)

I've used Bearshare, Kazaa, eMule, and BitComet (Bit Torrent).

I used Kazaa Ressurection, which was a re-make of Kazaa Lite K++, which was made by someone OTHER than Sharman Networks, so there was NO spyware whatsoever. The speed to get files really sucks though, and most files are corrupted.

Bearshare has a really fast download speed, many connections, and a fast search engine. But, it's just like eMule, which I have used for a lot longer and have trusted more.

I completely love BitComet. It's not that great for finding smaller files (such as single MP3s), but the ability to download entire series of a show in 1 download or entire albums makes it a great program. There is no search feature though, so you have to find sites yourself (which is a REALLY big pain at times).

With all that said, I mainly use eMule and BitComet as my two main programs, and eMule has more similarities to Bearshare.

I use LimeWire and Azureus. BearShare / Limewire and Morpheus are almost clones of each other...

I know this is slightly off topic hmmm but if you have a freind who has it maybe some one would be kind enough to send you the latest eXeem beta its a torrent program WITH a search feature very impressive for a beta I have to say

Its lousy for me. It installed all sorts of spyware and crashed my system when ad aware tried cleaning it. How come your did'nt crash as yet? Do you not run a spyware check?

When I installed Kazaa Resurrection, I had 4 entries of spyware. I used to use Kazaa Lite K++, but now I mainly use Bit Torrent.

Exeem had spyware ? or are you talking about Bearshare and the like lol as far as I know eXeem is clean no programs hit my firewall and Spybot didnt pick up anything after the install lol

The latest version of KaZaA Lite Revolution is version 2.6.1 . It doesnt have spyware. You could google it.

eXeem was detected with spyware with ad-aware 1.05 SE. When it tried cleaning eXeems spyware, it crashed my system...

wich version of eXeem ? lol im using 0.25b (I think lol)

eXeem is funded by spyware, so yeah it's got it in. eXeem is poor though!

ares is super good for downloading single songs, have being using Ares for about 8 months now and I have never encountered a corrupted file. Also bitcomet is great for torrenting.

this is going to be one of those posts...
why?????????????????
p2p
is so yesterday, if the program don't get you the downloads will....
it's not what it was