[RedBloodedAmerican]

I haven't tried this version, but if you are going to open your computer to the internet, then you get what you settle for (intrusion, etc).

[quimby]

Another way of putting it is if you get in bed with thieves, you shouldn't be surprised if you wind up being used.

It could well be that if the so called "owners" of this software do use it to sell advertising, they will be rightfully sued out of existence.

[JCG]

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.

Anybody know if Zone Alarm stops it?

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)

[BellStar]

It is all true. I did Kazaa and dumped it after I saw "Ice Age"!

[Cicero]

Many or most of these programs to steal music without paying for it open your computer to hackers. While I was at work one of my kids' friends installed such a program on my computer, and it took me a dog's age to get the bits and pieces of spyware out of my system and out of the registry. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. If you must steal music without paying for it, don't do it over the internet.

[AdA$tra]

The music industry is blaming P2P for declines in their sales. Has it ever occured to them that it may be the product quality has declined sharply. Art and business rarely mix to provide creativity.

[hove]

Riiiiggghhht. What does this guy think we are.....suckers? He puts a virus in his software....people discover it...he says he takes it out. Yeah...I'm sure gonna install any software this guy comes up with.

[hove]

Riiiiggghhht. What does this guy think we are.....suckers? He puts a virus in his software....people discover it...he says he takes it out. Yeah...I'm sure gonna install any software this guy comes up with.

[Bobalu]

If you must use KAZAA or some other program of this type then i recommend the following..

Use norton Ghost to make a backup copy of your C drive.
Now load up KAZAA and move it's 'My Shared Folder' to another drive.
Now make a Ghost copy of the C drive with KAZAA installed..

When you want to play with KAZAA load up the Image with it installed
When you want to be free of KAZAA then load up the clean image of your C drive.

If you are really paranoid then place the 'My Shared Folder' onto a CDRW disk and when you load up KAZAA disable all HDs but C in the bios setup on your PC. This give KAZAA access to only the C drive... and this will be set back to normal when you are done and re-load the original Ghost image...
And remember to get rid of anything on C that you would hate for some hacker to take a peek at... if that is a big job then do a fresh install of windows and install KAZAA on top of that... that way when you load up the KAZAA image there will be nothing at all on C to peek at :-)

[Jaxter]

Instructions on how to remove Kazaa spyware here.

[Bill Rice]

Interestingly enough, the install for Kazaa 1.6 is 134K, while the install for Kazaa "Lite" is 1.2Mb. I think someone is BS'ing about the "lite" version being worm free.

I'm not gonna install either one!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Heck, go with LimeWire.

[JURB]

I found a nifty little program that will erase all relevant (Brilliant Digital software) files and will clean most, if not all offending registry keys here.