Allpeers for Firefox appeared in the new beta version 0.53. The most important innovation is that Firefox 2.0 is now supported. With the Firefox extension Allpeers can provide a private P2P-Network. Dispatching and receiving the data anonymously. The developers have now made the beta available 0.53 for download,  the extension is now fully compaitble with Firefox 2.0. In addition further improvements have been made.

Thus for example with downloads it now gives a transmission rate and the estimated download time in the transfer side are indicated. With the photo album function a pre and a back button were added and Allpeers refer the user now on the summary page.

A US TELEVISION station has had to back down on claims that P2P software will fill your computer with viruses.7News reported how during its ‘exclusive’ test it downloaded Limeware software only to find it contained password cracking software.

. Our report miffed INQ reader Dominic Webb who contacted the 7News hack, Tony Kovaleski, and called him out on his claim.

Sure enough, after a bit more digging it turned out the TV hack had got it all wrong and confirmed that Limewire did not include any password cracking software.

“The error in my findings was the result of a unique license file downloaded by the installation of LimeWire on our computer. This license file is not a threat to a computer, Kovaleski said.

It turned out that his malware detector had triggered on a unique GNU license downloaded by LimeWire to 7News’ computer. This licence had a “digital fingerprint” (SHA-1 hash) which was associated with only one application in a database of thousands of software products which turned out to he an older version of a password cracker.

Limewire installed this unique license file on 7New’s system. Kovaleski established that it was this license which triggered the alert, not the installation of the actual application pwl9x.