Is Limewire Malware?

Limewire has gone back and forth between being truly a malware bundler and not. Current versions are supposedly not bundled with malware like older versions. However things change all the time. Most malware scanning programs will flag ALL p2p and torrent type download programs as potential problems. You need to read how they write the problems description. Sometime they are warnings. Sometimes they come right out and say it is a malware problem that MUST be fixed.

The truth in general is that all P2P programs can be dangerous even when they are not bundled with malware. That is why the are frequently flagged.

Just like the P2P programs can change over a period of time, so do scanners. At each update of definitions/detections there are changes which could change what it being flagged as a problem.

Windows Defender is not a very useful program to compare anything to? It misses lots of problems.

When you say AVG, due you mean AVG Antivirus or AVG Antispyware?

 

Okay then my answer is that normally antivirus programs focus primarily on things that are a virus, a trojan... etc. Thus they do not normally detect various items that may or may not be problems like P2P or remote access programs (things like WinVNC or similar). In fact this is the reason there are antivirus tools and separate antispyware tools.