IT question

[Saxon Stonedyke]

I did a google search for a particular song and came up with a *free* mp3 site. It looks to me to be too good to be true but after visiting it neither my anti-virus nor spybot search and destroy picked up anything nasty.

Is there an IT type out there that could look this over and make sure I won't catch internet cooties from it?

Please PM me for the link I don't want to post it here if it could cause harm.

Thanks

 

[SweetErika]

If it looks too good to be true, it likely is. The harm may very well be in any download or required registration, rather than simply visiting the site.

That said, there ARE sites that allow free downloads of mp3s and other files. I was able to download a bunch of songs for my munchkin recently for free on amazon and other sites. The artists put them out there as full lenght samples. Additionally, many download from torrent sites like thepiratebay with no issues. Admittedly, I do that for tv shows I've misses and other stuff I want to check out before buying, and I've never gotten viruses or malware (I am careful about downloading from multiple sources, reading comments, checking file contents, not getting poem or obviously foreign stuff, etc, though).

Are you looking to preview the song, or actually have it? Amazon often has previews, and there are a bunch of non-itunes places you canget individual songs for a nominal fee. Then you'll know you won't pick up anything nasty!

 

[Saxon Stonedyke]

I ended up buying the song I wanted from Amazon just to be safe but this site has a very large library and supposedly all free. It has a place to register but I got a download started without registering then canceled it quickly. Maybe I am just being paranoid.

 

[NippleMuncher]

YouTube and FireFox with the DownloadHelper addon. I'm just saying.

 

[missgiter]

Without reading the thread - Have you tried just downloading YouTube videos and saving the Mp3 files?

Try Media Human

 

[Lord Pmann]

Without reading the thread - Have you tried just downloading YouTube videos and saving the Mp3 files?

Try Media Human

RealPlayer, an extremely common media player, allows you to download right off of YouTube and convert to pretty much any file type you like. You can download the video and covert to just audio or whatever.

 

[NightL]

If the song was coming down as an mp3 then you would have been fine. If the file extension was .exe don't go near it.

As usual a good antivirus should throw up warnings if there were dangerous scripts/coding in the website.

The youtube suggestion is good. The suggestion of realplayer surprised me, have not seen that in many years. My approach would be downloading the latest version of Firefox and go to their add-ons page and get a youtube to mp3 converter. It adds a new button to the youtube page "Download as mp3".

here is the Firefox add-on page with their collection.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=youtube+mp3&appver=&platform=

Google Chrome youtube to mp3 extentioins
http://www.chromeextensions.org/?s=youtube+mp3&scat=all

In my opinion Realplayer just adds unnecessary bloat to your computer. Past experience had realplayer dominating various areas of your computer on installation. It was a pain to re-associate files and media back to preferred setting.