Kazaa Users

[darkrose]

LAST EDITED ON May-24-02 AT 02:54PM (EDT)[p]This does have to do with TS, because you'll end up not being able to do much with your computer if you download the new version of Kazaa or update... We've gone from spy/adware now to something very different. I had used Kazaa to let people download my short stories, but not any longer... If you download KAZAA, those little agreements you click on, thinking its just a media player (by {[link:http://www.brilliantdigital.com/|Brilliant Digital Entertainment]) that you're agreeing to... well.. read this...

[link:mailto:jborland@cnet.com|John Boreland] of [link:http://www.cnet.com|CNET] wrote this article, in part :"A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network of its own.

Brilliant Digital Entertainment, a California-based digital advertising technology company, has been distributing its 3D ad technology along with the Kazaa software since late last fall. But in a federal securities filing Monday, the company revealed it also has been installing more ambitious technology that could turn every computer running Kazaa into a node in a new network controlled by Brilliant Digital.

The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in as soon as four weeks. It plans to use the machines--with their owners' permission--to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks."



http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html



There is a way to uninstall it and keep Kazaa... in this article they take you through it step by step....

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-875274.html



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DarkRose

[railwaysoftware1]

Get Kazaa lite, no spyware, no ads and no hidden software....

Ron
www.railwaysoftware.com

Fight against terrorism, corruption and the Route Editor !

[zhivago47]

I want to thank you for that information.....had it, and now got rid of it.........I want to add something else, there is also a virus going through KAZAA, see trend microsystems, called the Benjamin virus........which I also had.......needless to say I have since gotten rid of Kazaa and Grokster, because of this, Grokster searches the same database as Kazaa for files........Trend Microsystems, or better known as PC Cillin, has an excellent tutorial on how to know if you have the virus, apparently I had it for quite some time, and how to get rid of it.........Very easy explanation......if you notice your hard drive space becoming smaller for no apparent reason, this could be it because it generates an enormous amount of false files so others in the Kazaa community will download the file and further propogate the virus.............

Some real a..holes out there.......too bad......

Tim

"Just a an old man and his old trains"

[darkrose]

LAST EDITED ON May-24-02 AT 11:37PM (EDT)[p]LAST EDITED ON May-24-02 AT 11:36*PM (EDT)

I want to thank you for that information.....had it, and now got rid of it.........I want to add something else, there is also a virus going through KAZAA, see trend microsystems, called the Benjamin virus........which I also had.......needless to say I have since gotten rid of Kazaa and Grokster, because of this, Grokster searches the same database as Kazaa for files...... Trend Microsystems, or better known as PC Cillin, has an excellent tutorial on how to know if you have the virus, apparently I had it for quite some time, and how to get rid of it.........Very easy explanation......if you notice your hard drive space becoming smaller for no apparent reason, this could be it because it generates an enormous amount of false files so others in the Kazaa community will download the file and further propogate the virus.............

Some real a..holes out there.......too bad......


Tim

"Just a an old man and
his old trains"



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Yeah, I found the site you were talking about, decided to put the link down for people. Before opening any file I get, I run Norton on it, whether it comes from a website, email, friend.. doesn't matter, I don't like taking chances with my PC, took me a long time to get her and will be along time before I can get another... My friend Asbjorn's disk ended up corrupted as heck from a file someone sent him.

http://housecall.antivirus.com/




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On another note, to answer your other post, Ayuh, I'm from Maine. I doubt that I'll ever move away from Maine.



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DarkRose

[MikeBrobst]

Thanks for the tip, I uninstalled kazza and alot of problems I've been having with my internet cleared up. Aparently it was running in the background or something? After unistalling kazza..and the brilliant whatever it was that i didn't know was there. I have now regained about 70MB of my system memory which I couldn't figure out what was using it.
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[derekmorton]

Thanks Rose.

All that crap gone from my system now.

Derek

[driverphil1]

I aggree with DarkRose. Scan any files you get over the internet. I even scan files from here. You can't take risks. I hate people who spoil this great resource (the internet) for others.

Phil
http://trainsimming.tripid.com

[chicagorail]

Since Morpheus and Kazza are very similar does this go for morpheus as well?

[darkrose]

No, it doesn't Brilliant Digital Entertainment has the agreement with Kazaa, not Morpheus, but for any questions about Morpheus or any other software go to http://www.cnet.com and look up the software and check what they have to say about it and what users of the software have found by experience...

Good Luck!

:)


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DarkRose

[zhivago47]

Just one other thing I would like to add, just because you have an antivirus program tunning doesn't mean that you won't get this virus........I had one running too and it didn't pick it up........So, I switched anti-virus programs........As for the Brilliant stuff, an antivirus program won't pick that up........If you are running Kazaa, I would get rid of it, at least until they can come up with a solution.......and like I said, I got it off of Grokster which is affiliated with Kazaa.....
The computer purrs like a kitten now........

Tim

"Just an old man and his old trains"

[Eagleknight]

Well kazaa can;t really turn on my comp because i have the power off to it when it isn;t on heehe. And on my56k I don;t think it will get anywhere fast LOL.

[darkrose]

If you have a Win OS then hit ctrl+alt+delete (only once, no need to reboot) on your computer and check to see what is running, if you see DW running then you have Brilliant's Digital Entertainment Media thing running, doesn't matter that the power is off to Kazaa or not or whether you're online or not. You can shut it off, but a little later you'll find that somehow it is running again...

Up to you whether you want to keep it or not..


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DarkRose

[railnut]

There is a way to stop them from accessing your machine after you have shut it off:

If you have broadband, remove the wake-on-lan jumper cable. It is a small threee or for wire cable that goes from your ethernet card to the motherboard. Same goes for an internl modem. Remove the wake on ring cable. If you have an external modem and it is power off, they cannot access you machine. also, check your bios setting for wake on lan or wake on ring and disable them.
Briliant is also attached to Gator for those who have that nasty little blabware junkette on their machine...




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[kennethf63701]

>I want to thank you for
>that information.....had it, and now
>got rid of it.........I want
>to add something else, there
>is also a virus going
>through KAZAA, see trend microsystems,
>called the Benjamin virus........which I
>also had.




I also had the benjamin virus on my computer. After I deleted all infected files I regained about 8 gigabytes of hd space and got 80% of my cpu speed back. They need to string these people who write these viruses up by thier toes and beat them within an inch of thier lives. Just a thought. :7

[QueenHeartles]

Ya know, I must be a glutton for punishment. I downloaded and installed the Benjamin Virus just to make sure I could get rid of it. :-)

Then again... I do that a lot... only after I read up on a virus to make sure it's not totally distructive.

I do computer tech work and I ALWAYS have to know how to get rid of bugs like this. Many people request my services (online no less) and it helps to know what you're doing instead of muddling through it. So I use my own system as a "guinea pig" to make sure it works. It doesn't bother me that I might have to reinstall everything. I do that on a regular basis anyway. I never uninstall ANYTHING, so when I redo my system, it gets rid of stuff I don't use.

All my data is backed up, several times over so I'm not at a loss when I do this.

Queen

"And the meandering of the queen continues for another day..."

[csx_freak]

i just ran a search for dw and it is in my train simulator file

[Smokewraith]

Yeah it's there, but, if you right click it and choose properties you'll see that it's the infamous application "Microsoft Application Error Reporting" Has nothing to do with Kazaa. (As far as I know)