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Kazaa Lite: spyware-free version
Pig Hogger writes "According to this VNUNET article, KAZAA-Lite, a new hacked version of spyware-ridden KAZAA file-sharing software is being circulated, sans spyware. The new, improved version has apparently been hacked by a russian programmer, as a matter of course."
Black this out bitches.
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A program used primarily for copyright infringement has been reverse-engineered and redistributed. Does this mean that the DMCA has officially cancelled itself out? :)
Spyware, reason #84 to use free/open source software.
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software thats been hacked by a friendly neighborhood russian hacker. its new kazaa light, with new and improved spyware, and a few extra trojans as an added bonus!
I ate my sig.
Every time there's a Kazaa-related article, everyone posts links to the free, sans-spyware version. I think most people already have it if they want it.
I guess now that it's got the ".com" instead of ".tk" it's official and thus gets its own Slashdot story...
::rolls eyes::
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The site for the KAZAA without adware/spyware is chock full of pop-ups for "free cellphones" and the like.
"Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire" --Robert Frost
this good.
Been using it for 2 weeks now.
Boy is life good without tons of popups.
And my firewall hasn't busted Kazaa Lite doing anything funky either.
Low popups, low funk, all good.
yummy.
"a new hacked version of spyware-ridden KAZAA file-sharing software is being circulated, sans spyware"
soooo... you're trying to tell us that its spyware-free?
</sarcasm>
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There are some mirrors at http://www.kazaalite.tk/ when kazzalite.com crumples under the slashdot effect.
I'm at 50, so I'm not karma whoreing.
has anyone have any sucess running this under wine? since this is now the lite version, i doubt that it needs IE and should therefore work?
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Is this some sort of CPM joke? This thing doesn't run on my computer. I tried doing chmod +x and downloading it multiple times, but it still doesn't work.
Besides that, the files are 10 days old. That's old software. How do I know that there hasn't been any bitrot?
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
I have tried it and it seems to use less resources, probably because it doesn't run those wierd ads that use up extra computer resources, and popup windows.
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...that I read slashdot several (dozens of) times a day, and this is the first time I was even made aware of the existence of a spyware-free Kazaa! So in summary; I am one of those people who want it but don't already have it.
Just more evidence that just because you visit a website religiously, you can still miss something right under your nose.
I'm gonna check it out now.
You can run but you can't hide, except, apparently, along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
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Kazaa Lite is 'spyware free' says creator
By James Middleton [19-04-2002]
Hacked version of file sharing software Kazaa users can now get hold of a hacked version of the peer-to-peer file sharing software which claims to be spyware free.
Earlier this month Kazaa users discovered that the client software includes what is effectively a Trojan program which connects to another network called Altnet and taps the user's processing power and storage space.
Brilliant Digital Media, the company behind the stealth peer-to-peer software, plans to activate the software on users' machines in the next few weeks and sell the resources to be used for distributed computing.
But recently released Kazaa Lite software is a hacked-up version of the Kazaa client without the third party software or banner adverts.
Created by a Russian programmer known only as 'Yuri', the illicit Kazaa Lite was developed as an alternative 'non-misleading' version of the software.
Kazaa Lite has also caught the attention of Sharman Networks, the developer of the original Kazaa software. Sharman said that it will vigorously defend its rights but has not said that it will take legal action against Kazaa Lite.
It would be difficult to block Kazaa Lite clients from accessing the Kazaa network simply because of the openness of the system which lets millions of users log on simultaneously.
KazaaLite.com has reported over 80,000 downloads since the program was released and no interoperability problems with the Kazaa network.
More info can be found at Kazaalite.com.
Instead of Kazaa et al I have switched to Gnucleus. This is one of the only real Open Source Gnutella network clients for Windows. For Linux there are so many great Open Source Gnutella clients.
It works great. No spyware or addware, and since the Gnutella network is an open P2P network it can be expected to exist when all the other proprietary networks have been closed.
could it be that taco and co must post a minimum amount of articles / day these days to fulfill the requirements of their advertisers? I mean who did _not_ know about kazaa light already? This is hardly news.
I would like to bring to the attention of my fellow Slashdot readers some troubling news: Linux is being used by Al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf, and other terrorist organizations with equally impressive sounding names as an affordable and powerful tool for purposes of recruitment, passing coded messages regarding planned terrorist operations, and other insidious purposes. I will attempt to show some of the more obvious proofs I have discovered to back up my arguments.
I am sure I have only scratched the surface of this disturbing conspiracy. I strongly urge the Slashdot readership to support American companies such as Microsoft who only hire patriotic American citizens and to boycott any company which is involved with Linux (as they are directly supporting terrorists). I sincerely hope the CIA or FBI can look into the actions of open source developers. People like Linus Torvalds should be taken into custody and have all assets seized.
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Ask Slashdot: deploying Linux in a business environment? Posted by Hemos on Monday April 22, @11:48PM
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An Anonymous Coward writes "I have a job where I'm real important and I get to take care of 2 NT servers, a bunch of workstations, and an AIX box that runs our database. My boss aksed me about the possibility of upgrading the other day. I told him that we should go with Linux because it's free, and you can write scripts and stuff. Also Ihave it running on all my 386 boxen at home. Has anyone ever used Linux in a business environment before? Update: Slashdot appears fourth when you type in 'Linux' on google.
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According to this this article Sharman Networks is planning on taking action against Kazaa Lite...i figure it wont be long till their network wont work properly with the program (much like Morpheous).
Oh well im sure those fun-loving Russians will fight back when it happens, should be fun to watch
For the DIY-crowd, ad-aware will clean up the mess Kazaa leaves behind without too much hassle. Grab it here. It's quite nice package, too. I have it running at every startup and it's not that rare to get a "visitor" regularly. In fact, it's so nice I've been thinking of investing the $15 for the plus-version.
This is something I've been wondering about this Kazaa controversy. Sure, an unwanted program designed to take up your hard drive space and CPU cycles is "bad"-ware. It is certainly "undisclosed"-ware and "unwanted"-ware. I would even go so far as to say it is "Flushing Kazaa's reputation down the toilet"-ware. However, is "spy"-ware the right term? While a distributed computing program probably does report a fair amount of information back to the main server, it isn't usually designed to spy of the user.
What I find very strange about this whole thing is why Brilliant Digital Media wasn't more upfront about their program. Would the average computer user totally reject the upfront trade of "You get to use this neato-keen file-sharing network for free, and all you have to give us is a little bit of the computer time and space you aren't using"? I guess it would have just killed them to be honest and straightforward about the deal users were making. To paraphrase a saying "The respect you give is the respect you'll receive".
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I found kazaa lite a few weeks ago while looking around for a new p2p program, and have been using it exclusively.. it's good stuff! If you use ad-aware, you'll see that it really is what it says it is.
There is whole lotta other progs like: Morpheus, Gnutella or WinMX and they play fair (all links are reviews).
Why should I even consider using something with spyware?
What is it lately? They are all over the web in many different areas. What has caused the russian boom?
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I loaded Kazaa onto a computer of mine and used etherpeek to check the incoming and out going traffic. It turned out that at certain times the spyware traffic was enough to clog a standard 56K modem. If this hacked version works, I'll be more glad about the increased bandwidth that is freed up than who gets to look at the webpages I visit.
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is it ironic to anyone else that the same folks that are fighting the good fight by making powerful and useful peer-to-peer information technology are the same ones that fsck us by selling their souls to advertising schmoe's just to make a buck, causing them to give us exactly what we want, and exactly what we hate at the same time??
Just ironic.
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I have also come in contact with a similarly hacked version, called KaZaa Spyfree, which is basically current kazaa, with cydoor dummy files, shopping/license agreements/buddy/introduce a friend/ads(yes there is a way to cut them all out without killing the app) as well as all the other recent spyware found inside
"spyware-ridden"...
"sans spyware"
Isn't that just a little repetitively redundant?
(a) a copyright infringement program
or(b) sex with a mare
I can't stand the irony- an ad-busting version of Kazaa, being distributed from a site rife with popups!
If you want Kazaa without Spyware, why not use Gnucleus? Gnucleus is the open-source client that Kazaa and Morpheus are directly descended from. Get it here.
Big deal, you could already loose both spy-ware and advertising with a simple crack and registry edit...
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... that I'm offered a free cellphone and $500 cash in two pop-up windows on loading Kazaalite.com.
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How much more trustworthy can this hacked version be? At least the makers of the official product have some accountability.
Sharman? I thought they made ass-wiping paper...
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I've noticed two common misconceptions - that the people running Kazaa (Sharman Networks?) can block this client easily. And also that they can stop the client being hosted on websites.
First, it's not that easy to block the client because the client is the same as the one you get from the Kazaa website, it's just had all the spyware and other crap removed. So basically the only way Kazaa could block it is by releasing a new client version and blocking all old versions.
That'd mean all users would need to download a new client (not just the users of Kazaa Lite). Plus the guy would just remove the spyware from the new version and put that up as Kazaa Lite again.
Secondly, if they somehow get the guy to stop allowing people to download from the website the guy can just go and stick it on Gnutella or another P2P service and magic - suddnely it's on 1000s of computers out there.
Basically, as someone else has said, the cat's out of the bag.
Ok, I've downloaded this funny kazaa-lite thing, what I want to know, is how do I get rid of this trojan that's been running on my i386 for a while - it's commonly known as "The microsoft XP Trojan ?"
:)
... - one with a back button that does what it's meant to do ... go back
Oh yeah - I remember now, format my HD and install Linux !
How silly of me
For those of you still getting unwanted pop-ups on websites - er, have you been living in a cave or something ? - time to switch to a new browser
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I know I'll be like the fiftieth person to say it, but it's so damn stupid it needs to be said again anyway. I mean seriously, I've been using it for a month specifically because it's been commented about on slashdot like ten times, and always modded up to "5 informative". Every time there is any sort of p2p article it's linked too. Seriously man.
Oh I'm betraying the blackout. Damn.
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Kazaa Lite: spyware-free version
Posted by Hemos on Sunday April 21, @03:09AM
from the making-it-clean dept.
Pig Hogger writes "According to this VNUNET article, KAZAA-Lite, a new hacked version of spyware-ridden KAZAA file-sharing software is being circulated, sans spyware. The new, improved version has apparently been hacked by a russian programmer, as a matter of course."
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Why Use Free/Open Source Software?
Posted by Hemos on Saturday April 20, @11:48PM
from the quantitative-analysis dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes "I came across Why Use Open Source / Free Software? at Linux Today. As the author says in his intro: "This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using Open Source / Free Source software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures." Good to see stuff we've known / suspected for some time backed up by real data...."
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Developers: Liability and Computer Security
Posted by michael on Saturday April 20, @09:05PM
from the money-makes-the-world-go-round dept.
Pelerin writes "In the latest Crypto-Gram, Bruce Schneier has written an interesting essay with some thoughts about the current lack of business incentives for the deployment and production of more secure software. His main recommendation/prediction is this: "Step one: enforce liabilities. This is essential. Today [...] the marketplace rewards low quality. More precisely, it rewards early releases at the expense of almost all quality. If we expect CEOs to spend significant resources on security -- especially the security of their customers -- they must be liable for mishandling their customers' data. If we expect software vendors to reduce features, lengthen development cycles, and invest in secure software development processes, they must be liable for security vulnerabilities in their products." Schneier's five-step plan for thinking about security is also good.
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Hybrid Powertrains and Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Posted by michael on Saturday April 20, @06:48PM
from the stick-shift dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes "Nice article from cars.com detailing a panel dicussion with reps from Chrysler Group, Ford, General Motors and American Honda agreeing that hybrid powertrains and hydrogen fuel cells are the future of automotive propulsion, and discussing their companies' different approaches in both areas."
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Ask Slashdot: Games in the Workplace?
Posted by Cliff on Saturday April 20, @05:02PM
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Anonymous Coward asks: "Back in the day it was not uncommon for games to contain 'Escape Buttons' and other commands to quickly exit a game. These games appealed to the Geek at Work as he could fill in his Friday afternoon and as soon as he heard his boss' shoes approaching, he could escape from the third dungeon and return to his spreadsheet. Yet games today are not allowing such activities to occur. Most games are requiring so much dedicated action that it is impossible to play a game and still switch back and forth without long delays. Where are the games for the worker?"
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Dataplay Ready to Launch
Posted by michael on Saturday April 20, @03:25PM
from the impact-crater dept.
geophile writes "Let's see. This is a CD-like, CD-incompatible storage medium with lower storage capacity than a CD; copying, which is supported by CDs and permitted by fair-use laws is not possible; and it's more expensive than a CD. Read about this great idea here." We've done a couple of stories on the Dataplay discs; this one discusses the heavy content controls built-in. MSNBC had an article on Dataplay a few weeks ago that mentions an "education process" needed to get people to re-buy all their old music in a new format.
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JPG Compression - The Bandwidth Saver
Posted by Hemos on Saturday April 20, @02:01PM
from the cutting-down-on-bandwidth-costs dept.
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IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard
Posted by michael on Saturday April 20, @01:03PM
from the bent-out-of-shape dept.
An anonymous submitter writes: "According to EE Times, the IEEE is working to develop an automotive black-box standard similar to what airplanes have. Forget Acme Rent-A-Car in Connecticut - get ready to have your insurance company jack your rates for going over 65mph."
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802.11b at 22mbps
Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday April 20, @11:57AM
from the bring-it-on dept.
Radi-0-head writes "According to this article at PCWorld.com, "U.S. Robotics (USR) has boosted the speed of its latest range of wireless LAN products for small businesses to 22 megabits per second, while retaining compatibility with existing 2.4-GHz systems built to the IEEE 802.11b standard..." Sounds to me like a great alternative to 802.11a."
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Mastercard Cuts Off Third Party Transactions
Posted by chrisd on Saturday April 20, @10:40AM
from the porn-charge-backs-hurt-us-all dept.
strredwolf writes "Mastercard has cut out third parties from charging on behalf of merchants. This affects folks paying their auctions and goods via Paypal, Yahoo! Paydirect, and potentially ebay's Billpoint. It may also affect Paypal's Mastercard-backed Debit Card, but there's no word from Paypal as far as I can tell." Word has it paypal is trying to negotiate a side deal with Mastercard.
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WTF? I mean, are we going to see front-page links to warez copies of AutoCAD here soon, just because we don't agree with the way Autodesk wrote their software?
It baffles me, because the link is obviously to a piece of software that is not legal, no matter what license agreement or personal feelings.
For a site that is supposed to be so Open Source aware this seems especially strange. Open Source does not condone piracy. Instead it allows for alternatives. So why not have an article about a good Open Source alternative, instead of linking to illegal software?
(Yeah, I don't like spyware either, but if people are stupid enough to install it, then that's there bad. It's an other thing for the company to make it clear that the spyware exists, but these are law-technical issues. Which should be dealth with seperately.)
Seems it's not so 'clean' after all -
:)
Cydoor - cd_lint.dll
Well I'll be darned ! - still trojaned
No, they're opposites.
dictionary.com says:
You must improve your PWP so that it works on FagWare browsers such as Opera and Mozilla so that the GAY/Lunix crowd may enjoy your handywork as well. I upgraded to IE 6 because Windows 98 comes with IE 4 and I couldn't see it.
Remember Kiddies: Join the I hate Klerck mailing list so that he will have more crapflood material to add to his PWP's!
Get a life!
I'm looking at the Kazaa search interface
m l
and hauntingly reminds of The Registers recent story about the Windows XP search companion. I am not a code head, but it appears to me that Kazaa's search functionality is based on something native to Windows. If Kazaalite propagates, and if it is in fact based on this parasitic search functionality, would MS get to see any of what is searched?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24815.ht
movie1.exe
a fact that has been on slashdot comment sections numerous times for about a month has finally reached slashdot editors.
woohoo
I did this a few months ago. Instead of hacking KaZaA, I hacked the CyDoor DLL, replacing the old on with my version that simply does nothing.
You can get the code at: http://www.bakedbeans.com/cydoor/
If ad-aware is run with any new versions of kazaa installed, it will remove a certain .dll file that kazaa requires. Kazaa will give a error message that says a required .dll was not found and wont run. Of course this .dll is only part of the adware/spyware and is not really needed. Kazaa-lite replaces this .dll with a dummy file so it will still run.
Karma don't matter 2 nite
One more mod and it's -2
Unlucky for him again
He never had respect 4 karma it's true
That's why he never wins
That's why he never has enough
2 post insightful thoughts alright
And he just tacosnots in a huff
And says 'Karma don't matter 2 nite'
Karma don't matter 2 night
It sure didn't matter yesterday
Just when u think u've got more than enough
That's when it all up and flies away
That's when u find out that u're better off
Makin' sure your troll's alright
Cuz money didn't matter yesterday
and it sure don't matter 2 nite
etc.
No, I'm not a troll. Nor do I have 50 karma to burn either. But somehow I just couldn't resist writing a slashdot filk on this.
compressing TIFF files with JPEG compression _reduces_ bandwith usage
So, what tf is up with RUSSIANS being on the side of FREEDOM?? That's so fuscked up. Remember better dead than red? No one else seems to. Oh well. The world is going down hill.
I haven't used Kazaa in months, before they started adding the spyware. But is the spyware part of the Kazaa application or a separate app loaded by the installer?
If it's a seperate program then it should be easy to update the hack everytime they change anything on the server side.
If it's an integral part of Kaaza then it's impossible to separate them - just like IE is part of Windows - just ask Micro$oft.
... i agree it's pretty hard... but i don't like going to the store to buy it... because there are always dirty old men there... and I'm a hot young girl...
It had no popups about a month back, then everyone suddenly heard about it at once and he had to choose between going off the web and taking his software with him, or putting adverts on his page.
I think he made a good choice.
Besides I hardly think its ironic anyway, he advertises it as Kazaa without the spyware, not adware. Cydoor is also blocked due to their past behaviour, and I wouldn't trust their software either.
I wonder if Sharman Networks would have bought Kaaza if they knew their profit could be so easily hacked away.
The sheer amount of terms being made up on the spot here is mind-boggling. Sure, I've heard of spyware, malware, and etc...but I'm sure some of these are made up! Everyone and their brother are using a new term: crapware, monkeyware, Kazaaware, or some other inane Xware name. Has anyone thought of calling Kazaa software?
Oops!
from smcv:
>No, they're opposites.
>dictionary.com says:
>ridden Pronunciation Key (rdn)
>...
>adj.
>Dominated, harassed, or obsessed by. Often used in combination: disease-ridden; grief-ridden.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
from Z4rd0Z:
>Isn't your own statement a little "repetively redundant" as well, or are you just trying to be ironic?
Isn't that just a little repetitively redundant?
(Taken in the original context of course...)
Oh my god.. this is a joke.. non-spyware from the russians hahaha.
P2P must be OpenSource - all else is the same old crap in new clothes only. Hacking it doesn't make it any better - it's still hidden source from my point of view.
I'm not going to run anything 'free' on my hosts which is not OpenSource. Full stop.
Again, this is news? What's up with the stories on Slashdot? I've submitted better crap than this that never got through.
Spyware, viruses, exploits...
Awwwww...isn't life grand?
No, you are correct. Slashdot posters need to properly credit their sources. Also, the editors need to take journalism 101. Also, the moderation system is broken.
So what else is new?
It took a while to realize what kind of spyware kazaa was, even with lots of people using it for a long time.
Now we have this 'hacked' version with the spyware apparently removed. I don't know the author, there is no company behind it, it is not open source... and nonetheless we all jump over it, trusting it does what it says...
How do I know it doesn't contain some extra spyware?
I have not any indication that kazaalite is not a legitimate software, but again, I have not any indication on the contrary... I think there is something very wrong in the way we accept and instantly trust new software.
My question is WHY should I trust this more than kazaa?
What happened with Linux version of Kazaa client? Are there plans to make it back?
As it stands, I dont have a firewall/bridge in my house, but soon I will, and £10 says there is a way to ensure the malware in Kazaa doesnt call home. Or does kazaa not like being masqed in the first place? Its nice to see Kazaa Lite, hope it stays available.
loply.com
/. is not only a "Open Source" advocacy site. This site has also posted several stories about decss, Napster, PS2Crack, and numerous other programs which have questionable legal status.
P2P-networks (all of them) cannot compete with good old ftp-tranding anyway. :)
First, they are too slow, and second... what's up with all those movies etc. that is renamed to something other than what they are.. does anyone think they get more credit if they spread more GB's on these networks... ?
How hard can it be to make some friends on the net and download from them, and for mp3 there is only one: Audiogalaxy never let meg down
"If you keep an open mind people will throw a lot of garbage in it."
Just a thought: Given that Russia does not have a DMCA-type law,
how motivated would they be to extradite these guys to the USA?
(Given, of course, that they figure out whodunnit)
It seems to me the russian police have a bit more important things to do..
Any russians here who'd like to comment on this?
Some people would think that this version lacks features instead of spyware routines and would not download it.
I'd have put more efforts in hacking the protocol, like the folks at OpenFT did some time ago.
i read it on CHIP (!) already. And this is like CNet, yesterdays News today in german. But i gotta admit this works and i use it.
Kazaa really sucked and when im running Win2k (yes, its a dualboot machine) i keep it open, much less performance greedy than the official Kazaa, what makes me believe in the spyware-free promise. I am writing redundant silly stuff?? Yeah, no wonder just got back from a weekendlong LAN, and had no sleep at all...
gnite,
Lispy
But apparantly spyware wasnt big enough of a nuscance then.
On Kazaa?
I'd rather be sailing...
...they probably moved all the adverts from kazaa to popup windows on their webpage :)
Ad-aware doesn't detect or remove the Brilliant Digital Entertainment stuff either. You have to use add/remove programs in the control panel.
I like that Cydoor mimic though, you might be able to put it in the windows system folder and fool other programs as well.
...Nope, nothing here. Oh look, my web server just said beep. I have a visitor!
Awwww...isn't life grand?
It's already exists since one month, it's in french and it's named Omega. http://membres.lycos.fr/bakamx/
what they mean is freespyware ,not spyware-free...
i mean come on, they wouldn't post it if it weren't somewhat better on the matter of spyware than the original is, now would they? right? then again...
--tzan
If he has nothing to hide, why not open source the project? That way we could see all the trojans he didn't put in. oh yeah, and then I could port it to BSD!!! I say we email the author and start a petition!!!
danceanthems@kazaalite.com
If you like this free version, I'd click on those links, even if they are "annoying", and "waste valuable seconds of your day you could be using to look up photoshop'ed naked jpegs of the cast of Enterprise".
No irony, really.
-- The unsig...
I think this does fall in the realm of "stuff that matters".
Whatever one's personal feelings are regarding the P2P "community", the simple truth is that it's eventually going to change the way we buy music, movies, and probably everything we purchase in digital form. Personally, I find the whole thing fascinating.
Another truth is that while we can make all the ethical arguments we want, we (the geeks) are the ones to blame. Who creates the technology to make pirating so ridiculously easy? We do. Who dreams up and builds P2P networks that are nearly impossible to shut down? We do. Of course on the flip side we are also building the measures to prevent such copying or at least make it extremely difficult, but for every talented person doing their best to stop piracy there is another equally talented person ready to take on whatever challenge the other dreams up.
My point here is not to endorse anything, but rather to say that whatever you personally may think about the whole thing, the repercussions will effect us all.
So what happens when people start distributing K-Lite over Morpheus? Will Sharman sue StreamCast for copyright infringement?
(ring ring)
"Hello? Pot? This is Kettle. Yo' black!"
You should be careful, you could have split personalities like in fight club. One a nice guy another an evil spyware producing hacker!
Veramocor
Be careful of saying things like "the only way Kazaa could block it is...". There is always another way. In fact, I thought of one while reading your post:
Imagine that one of the pieces of spyware is designed to send out an "I'm alive!" message to a central server, to let it know that it has an activated client. This isn't too hard to imagine, I don't think. Suppose Kazaa blocked access to its network to any host that did not send an "I'm alive!" message. There you go, it's blocked.
Now, the Russian folks could combat this with two different techniques: modify the Kazaa client itself to send out the "I'm alive!" message, but this will likely cause CRC/integrity checks to fail.
The other possibility is to create a new process that sends the "I'm alive!" messages to the spyware servers. Problem with this is, it isn't much better than the spyware it replaced, in terms of system and network resources.
Thats one of the main reasons why people do warez. How are they otherwise going to get the latest stuff? The stores are slow so its easier to just warezed it. Ok, most of the time its just a money issue. But I for one warezed Quake3 as soon as I could to get some extra practice, then I bought the game when it eventually hit the stores where I live.
Warez are a lot more convenient than actually buying the products. Maybe not so much in the US and other countries where broadband or adsl isnt as common as Sweden. Here the p2p underground has a real stronghold. Whatever you want, its probably the fastest way to get it on Direct Connect. If you have a phat pipe (10 Mbits or so) and some 50-100 Gigs worth of movies/progs you can access the best hubs. 6-800 users and 15-20 Tbytes of data, that will keep you busy for a while. And thats just one hub of many.
The Gnutella network sucks ass in comparison to FastTrack. It's much easier and faster to find what you need on FastTrack.
I would consider using Gnutella when it's the last P2P on Earth.
Quite a few comments mention the availability of this software over the Kazaa network itself, should the main server be taken down or slashdotted.
Could someone with an "official" file from the website please post the MD5 signature of this file, giving everyone who intends to download over Kazaa a small measure of security against downloading a trojan?
Congrats, sir!
;-)
To celebrate, why don't you just hop over to the US and we'll let you explain how you did it at a conference
-twb
"At least the makers of the official product have some accountability."
They've never demonstarted this, actually they have demonstarted that they can screw their customers as much as they want and still get away with it.
This explanation is available within the installer file (v1.6.0, english). All in all, this sounds very reasonable and plausible to me:
Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
I've been using Kazaa Lite for a couple of days and noticed that it uses close to the %100 CPU cycles on a win2k box a lot of the time!
Anyone elses notice this?
Does anyone know why?
Easy. None of the damn things scale.
Napster was great untill too many people used Napster. Then it was Gnutella, but soon too many people used that too. Then Morpheus, then Kazaa... Each emerges, gains popularity, and is destroyed by it's own popularity.
Here's a clue - any network where a message from a client is supposed to perpetuate to every other client is doomed to failure as the number of users increase. No amount of CPU or bandwidth that we will see in the near future can save it.
Who is starting the next P2P sacrifical network? Might as well get on board before it becomes popular and the honeymoon ends.
Maybe the state's highest function is to grind out insoluble problems. (Zelazny, Hall of Mirrors)
has anyone tried the new Morpheus?
since we are at the topic of Kazaa.
i know that the new Morpheus has
switched to Kazaa servers and it's
quite a bit toned down from the
old one. but has anyone try it,
and is it any good, and it's
spyware free , right?
thanks
I uninstalled kazaa v1.5 and installed kazaa-lite v1.6 a week ago and it is great. No ads or popups. Edited the registry to get rid of the bandwith limit for mp3s. My firewall hasn't detected any unusual traffic. Adaware isn't able to fing anything. And packet trace is clean. Looks good.
The reason is that file sharing has been around since bandwidth started increasing. Lusers need file sharing applications. Newsgroups, FTP, and IRC.