Please read the following sections on how to safely use Ares and Ares MP3.
Please read the following sections on how to safely use Ares and Ares MP3.
If you share copyright protected files such as songs, movies, or books, without the consent of the copyright holder, you can be held liable for copyright infringement.
Recently the RIAA and a number of performing artists have succesfully sued users of P2P file sharing programs for allowing other users to download copyrighted songs from their computer. Many of these cases have been settled out of court for thousands of dollars.
It is your responsability to use Ares within the legal boundaries of your country's intellectual property laws.
When you connect to a P2P file sharing network you open part of your hard drive to thousands or even millions of other connected users.
The part of your hard drive that is visible to other users of Ares is limited to your download folder. The default download folder is located in the Ares installation folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Ares\Downloads).
You should never add private files to your download folder. This includes emails, financial statements, photos, medical records, and other documents that could reveal sensitive information about yourself or your family.
Ares can be configured to filter out files that contain adult content. This is especially useful when you allow other family members to use Ares on your computer.
Some files are infected with computer viruses like worms and trojans. These viruses, if allowed access to your computer, can delete files, corrupt your operating system, or even cause permanent hardware damage.
To protect you from unwittingly contaminating your computer with a virus, Ares does not allow you to launch certain file types (e.g. .exe, .bat, .vbs, and .bin) from within the application. In addition, Ares can be configured to filter out suspicious files from the search results.
However, the best way to keep your computer protected is to always scan new files with an up-to-date virus scanner.