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Another good one is www.kazaa.com
Are you sure about that? Read on........
Several file sharing companies including Grokster, Bearshare, Limewire and Kazaa, bundled a product called ClickTillU Win, which several anti-virus manufacturers classified as a Trojan Horse. Their response? “We didn’t know!”. Neither Cydoor technologies, who distributed the Trojan to the file sharing companies, nor any of the file sharing companies, had performed even a preliminary insection of the software to see what it did”.
For Privacy activists, the worst file-sharing company is probably Kazaa. Though Audio Galaxy came with the Gator Offer companion, users had the option of not downloading it. Kazaa insists that its users download its partner programs, which in the past have included NewDotNet (which sells Domain names but also causes crashes and Net connection problems when installed.) SaveNow (Fully blown spyware) and Cydoor ( which displays ads and causes pop-ups) all worrying programs according to privacy activists.
If you downloaded Kazaa this year, you might have also installed software used to create a kind of private peer to peer network (with other Kazaa users) called Altnet, which is run by Brilliant Digital. They want to use peoples private computers to process and serve the advertisements to other people, effectively laying the bandwidth cost of providing advertisements on the users of Kazaa…………..
If you are now starting to feel worried, check out
www.ad-aware.com Alternatively check the net for the hacked version of Kazaa without the offending program attachments, its called Kazaa Lite.
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