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Re: KaZaA - Bad Zone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas@starka.st)
Mon Jan 20 20:09:27 2003
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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:25:09 +0100
From: Thomas@starka.st
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Also use http://www.dietk.com/
/Thomas
tony@777h.org wrote:
>
> Kazaa lite doesnt have ads or spyware.
> http://www.kazaalite.com/
>
> PLUS it works great with Wine (http://www.winehq.com/) :)
>
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:53:05AM -0700, David Krum wrote:
> > To follow up my mid Oct post:
> >
> > KaZaA is still launching ads in the local zone. KaZaA was contacted 6 Jan
> > 03 via their bug report page.
> >
> > "Pop-up ads are being spawned from the local hard disk. This puts them in
> > the local zone. Scripts running in this zone can be harmful."
> >
> > I am now awaiting their response.
> >
> > To immunize KaZaA from this defect I have removed the permissions from the
> > directory it launches ads from. This has a nice side effect of not showing
> > ads. The directory to secure is: %WinDir%\AdCache
> >
> > David
> >
>
> --
> Cannot find nsabackdoor.dll. Please reinstall Windows.
