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Has this happened to anyone else. I was on the computer earlier this morning when I was disconnected from the internet. Couldn't fix it from here and called my ISP and come to find out they were compelled to shut me down by FCC or something. It seems somehow 8 MP3 downloads were installed on my computer all in one shot on Dec 31. I did go on the internet to wish some friends and family Happy New Year on FB. My ISP was told to disconnect my connection and the tech told me what the problem was, he called it a torrent. I couldn't find the songs at first and then I found a folder in my Doc's that said LocalCDData. When I opened it up there were over 1500 songs in there from reggae, blues, jaz, RR, country, every genre there is including sound tracks and karaoke that I never downloaded. It took me forever to delete them. Has anybody else had this. He said they let me go this time but it is copywrite infringement and I could be liable for future downloads. The only thing I did find was something in list of downloaded programs called Smart Sound and Napster. Smart Sound has something to do with Abode. I have never downloaded any MP3 intentionally ever. But I have downloaded a couple hundred Karaoke but I have the receipts for them. I have never downloaded anything free for Karaoke, music MP3, or video's. Scary stuff. Anybody got any answer please give me a heads up. thanks, Jim

If you have an unknown Torrent app on your machine, then it means your computer has been compromised and someone else has been using your machine for storage. The simplest and fastest thing to do is wipe out your machine and start from scratch. Make a list of all the applications you use, find the install programs or discs for them, then format the computer and start over.

If this isn't feasible, then take it to a local computer shop (preferably a small computer shop that has been around for a LONG time) and have them diagnose and remove the offending programs. Be prepared for them to suggest the wipe and do over option though. Once a machine is compromised, it can be very difficult to remove and prevent re-infection.

-Chris

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The LocalCDDatabase folder is used by Power Karaoke as a reference library for its naming of tracks. There are actually no songs in it. If you deleted the library you might have trouble running Power Karaoke again. If you don't have Power Karaoke then it may be as Chris has said but I hardly think so. If you have never used a torrent and don't have TOR it is highly unlikely someone has been using you for storage.

do a search using the windows search for .mp3, .cdg, .wav things like that will show you what music you have on your computer.

Hope this helps

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Hey thanks chris and lone, what I think it might be after calling back the technician it is because of my wireless router, he was telling me that someone like a neighbor might have hacked me. I did some searching for the specific songs that were downloaded but none of those songs would ever impress me except one it was Springsteens "Rock in The USA". But the other 5, I never even heard of. Like I said earlier I didn't ever download one MP3 song in my life, only Karaoke.

OK and I deleted the whole file from PowerKaraoke, wow I didn't realize that folder was from there, but thought it could be, but left it, I didn't empty my recycle bin util I tried my Powerkaraoke program and it worked fine, at least so far, and if it doesn't now, like you said I have nothing to lose if I have to wipe the drive. I did that too about 2 years ago, what a pain, but it can be done. I also have another drive in it, haven't checked it but haven't used that drive in a while and had problems with it and wiped that one too years ago, it came with the PC when I bought it, a dinosaur from the Millenium, but over the years I added more memory and a bigger hard drive, but the original HDD was only 60 gb. I'm using a desk top and my lap top hasn't been plugged into the net since about Sept. My laptop is dedicated Karaoke.

But when he told me about the wireless router, I went out to radio shack and bought a wired one, much safer. I checked all the popular mp3 third party download Bit Torrent and Torrent and Bear Claw and few others he gave me to search. Like you say though it could be from an app or a previous download that I didn't read and said yea, yea, yea, hit the go ahead or download button, lessons learned. There was one though awhile back called "live wire" or "limewire" something like that that I refused, it sounded like Malware to me with the name and I thought nope and didn't.

What puzzled me was the time they were downloaded. We had a tragedy in my family at Christmas when my nephew went missing on Dec 21, they found his body on the day after Christmas on the 26th, downloading music on New Years Eve around midnight was out of the question for me, though I was on FB wishing everybody a Happy New Year, like I said, with the shock heavy still just talking with the family and the funeral and all the grief, music was priority #99 out of 100, if you know what I mean, we are still grief stricken, and ask why and of course guilty and remorseful because we couldn't help him, he never said to anyone that he was despondent, he was only 28 and problems with his girlfriend. A very sad event none the less.

The tech said they might let me off for $20 a song or may not bother me at all. I never thought I could get caught up in something like this in my life ever. Just as angry as you guys are here thinking of the thousands of dollars I have spent on all my downloads and disc's and the pirates keep right on going, and then be even accused of piracy is quite upsetting to say the least.

Thanks again men and a belated Happy New Year, this site is #1.

Oh one more thing I could not find those songs on my computer, like Mama Kim, Dream On, Walk This Way, Same Old Song and Dance, Sweet Emotions, and the one Sprinsteen Rock in the USA.

I'm one of them old guys at 70 and the only karaoke I have are the ones you guys don't talk much about 50-60's RR and Country up to 1980, and up in the Mountains of WV, so you get the drift of that, Reggae or Rap, na, never happen. The only so called modern RR song I got on there if from 1986, Dire Straits, "Walk of Life". My DJ music is all the old RR from when I bought everyone available on CD from "Time Warner" when they had the CD of the month club, and I only subscribed to Classic R&R. Surprised when they sent me the letter I had purchased every song that was available at the time. That was in the 90's.

$20 says your wireless was open (or had a default password) and was being used by a neighbor to run a torrent hub. It probably isnt even on your computer.

yeah from your picture you don't look like the type that would like "aerosmith" even though steven tyler himself is 65 yrs old.

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