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Those people with kazaa beware of a worm that is disguised as a 216kb music file, when you get it, it copies itself and sends itself out to kazaa users. It doesn't cause much damage, except fill up your memory with copies of itself, which means a very slow computer.
Sounds reasonable except this virus is kinda old buddy! But thanks tho ;)
Umm. It's not that new a virus. And it's not a virus. It's called Benjamin and was created as an attempt to deal with piracy and child pr0n that was being distributed on Kazaa.
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99495.htm
http://www.computeruser.com/news/02/05/22/news3.html
You need to stay a little more informed I think.
Well i'm new at this, your welcome Jroc i think
no offense or anything... but thisis a security site , u know for ppl who are curious or are into security.. why is ur name newhacker? just curious :)
o ya benjamin, theres an update on kazza that wil solve the problem or at least reduce it :D
now all there needs to be is an update for kazaa lite to solve that problem...
jeminide: will there be? It says Kazaa 6.0 final
FYI: www.kazaalite.com for spam free / spyware free of kazaa....
I hope there is some kind of update to Kazaalite??
I'm starting to get sick of the pop-up that says..UPDATE to 1.7!!
If anybody has a way to remove that pop-up..P.M me!
I ditched kazaa lite and now use regular kazaa with kazaa tap which let's you have updated kazaa but without spywares, ads and has a quick search engine without the 100 results limit...
Check it here : http://www.coolshiz.com
Thx Scorp... I checked it out but I must argue that, in my opinion, Kazaa Lite is better. :)
I dunno, I use that cause I can get an update Kazaa that will check that the files aren't Benjamin infected... Kazaa lite was cool but I saw no statement saying it would block Benjamin infected files so I switched to Kazaa Tap.
That is why I gave up on the P2P stuff myself. Not only with the potential for a real virus/DDoS/exploit to be distributed and/or used, but also with the many "anti-groups" whi are getting increasingly antsy on how they are going to thwart the piracy problem:
BSA News
and the related site Computer World News
Since reading these little tidbits, I did not know if this was a scare tactic or if this is really taking place. Call me paranoid, stupid or whatever, but I do not really like the idea of virii and civil/criminal litigation. However, I think the laws and enforcement in general does not have their priorities in order when it comes to these services. I think before focusing on the person getting the hottest mp3, they should be scaveging for pedophiles feeding the habits of sick *******s with kiddie porn. That to me is a bigger and more horrid problem than any piracy.
Just my 2 cents.
whats wrong with kazaa media desktop (1.71) is there something i should know?
:-)
Prankster, Kazaa Media Desktop is full of spywares gathering info on what is on you computer and putting it in a database for god knows why... Bonzi Buddy is a spyware tool ans there is the clint spyware within Kazaa... I advise you to get either kazaa lite or kazaa tap to get rid of the junk but keep the functionnality of the program. You should also consider running AdAware on your computer to eradicate spyware... Search for those apps on Google. they are easy to find.
that would be benjamin then, we were made aware of this quite a while ago, plz check no-one has posted teh same as u in future, like 3 weeks ago.
preep
benjanin also, dosnt stay 216k in size, it enlarges itself to look like the file "dust space" someone called it, so it can be any size