Correction: After speaking with iMesh, the owners of Bearshare, as well as McAfee, it appears that the facts presented by the original source of this article are incorrect, and therefore not relevant today or accurate.
According to McAfee senior product manager Mark Maxwell, the term "Bearshare" is the riskiest search engine term, with a full 46 percent of the resulting sites being ... [ read the full article ]
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So why would people want to search bearshare again? i don't get it... people type in screensaver, that's understandable, because they want some fancy screensavers. But what the heck is bearshare?
So why would people want to search bearshare again? i don't get it... people type in screensaver, that's understandable, because they want some fancy screensavers. But what the heck is bearshare?
Originally posted by Gnawnivek: So why would people want to search bearshare again? i don't get it... people type in screensaver, that's understandable, because they want some fancy screensavers. But what the heck is bearshare?
Because they want things for free and are not smart enough to use a more complex mode like torrents. Most that use it are kids. They don;t care if their parents computer becomes a bot net. Even torrent site are riddled with viral adds as well but much of the content except for cracked apps is clean.
man bearshare brings me back. when free napster finally died i tried bearshare out (after morpheus and kazaa both went to shit). bearshare was crap though. was really buggy and there were lots of fake files and viral goodness over the network. i was so glad when bittorrent came along :) made things a lot easier (and more lazy). its a shame when you look for nothing but torrents instead of scrolling usenet and irc (which i do anyway and have since i was a kid lol).
Mark Maxwell has not worked for McAfee for several years? Can you pull this article down please? I have recieved a couple complaints.
Craig Denton
McAfee Web Security
Craig,
I have been in contact with iMesh, and the article will now be corrected. The original source (AOL) has been contacted by them as well. Sorry to McAfee, and feel free to contact me whenever.
