KaZaA = Trojans

[Scorp666]

http://www.kazaalite.com/

[jethro]

Sounds like the I-Love-You virus. If it is, then there's probably some other **** wrong with our computer. Doesn't it delete all images as well?

Originally posted here by jaguar291
I had to learn the hard way, I got some stupid VB script attached to a .MP3 file I downloaded and it turned out to be a virus that changed all my media files into copies of itself. I had to format my computer and I lost a ton of informaiton that I needed.

[cwk9]

Thank god for KaZaA lite.

[nutta]

I recived the bladerunner trojan from Kazza...it was a real pain in the ass! Since then I have boy-cotted kazza and morpheus......Now I definitly have to check this other one you guys talked about

[gstudios]

So let me get this straight:

KaZaA, Limewire, Bearshare, and more, bundle "ad-ware" programs with their software, to generate revenue. And the Ad-Ware company that they were using was Cydoor. In Cydoor's ad-ware program, they included spy-ware, which allows executables to be executed, and such.

If I got that correct, then, the file-sharing programs aren't at totally at fault. And that Cydoor is the evil one. Wonder who backs them up, the RIAA, and MPAA perhaps? Oooh, how evil.

We can't kill Filesharing programs through legislature, or the courts, but we can piss of a whole lot of people.

[Scorp666]

I installed Kazaa lit a few minutes ago...

It looks like the Kazaa I had without the Cydoor dlls

It took me about 2 hours to disable cydoor and other spywares in the original Kazaa so I figure that Lite version is cool.

Now that will not make you a wiser person though! Downloading exe, vbs and other executables with kazaa is the most insecure behavior I have heard of in quite a while! If you carefully look at the kazaa options there is an options to exclude those files from the downloadable files list...

The best security measure is knowing the things you run, operating them properly and wonder whenever running something, does it pose a treath to my security...