Limewire running off with my CPU.

[cbxsage]

I am currently running Limewire 4.14.2/Win XP SP2 and have a problem. I've been using this program flawlessly for 2 years, upgrading when prompted. For the past 6 months, within minutes of starting a download, Limewire takes off with all my CPU and seems to suspend the download while my system runs wild. This usually lasts about 3 minutes and then recurrs every 10 to 15 minutes thereafter. I have monitored running processes and verified that Limewire is the culprit, it takes up to 98% of the CPU when this takes place. Since it's been reported in Windows Task Manager, I have been assuming it was a normal function of the program, thinking that malware would not be so blatant therefore conluding it's not Malware/Spyware/Virus. My AV is StopSign and the tech told me he had never heard of these symptoms, but directed me to shutdown the AV real-time scanning, which had no effect. After much research, I thought it might have been a rootkit, so StopSign wrote me a custom rootkit scanner/cleaner, still no help. Just today a new twist has taken place. Now when I start the program, it barely gets connected and takes off, even before I can search or select and begin a download. The info on the net has pretty much concluded that as P2P software is concerned, Limewire is the least likely to have anything hiding within it's code. My registry is clean and organized and there are no anomolies. My system is free of viruses and hopefully, malware/spyware/rootkits. I am lost, unless Gates and company have lauched some kind of new backdoor critter that targets P2P's, which I wouldn't put past them...

Please Help. Anybody?

[007]

It seems like that the Limewire is trying to scan your music library. Go to tools and see if there is anything you're sharing on your upload folder.

Tell me what version of Java Runtime Environment and Limewire you are using? Another thing you can try is to remove limewire and install frostwire that might help.