Two times in 24 hours I was asked about an install of Kazaa so here we go...
Kazaa is BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!! If you are running Kazaa please read the following.
I am reluctant to even tell you this but it's worse for me to stand by and watch these things perpetuate across the internet, DO THESE THINGS AT YOUR OWN RISK, I am only trying to educate the masses here! Verify what I am saying for yourself before you go messin up your computer. I would say it is worse to just stand by so here it goes...
First Uninstall Kazaa... Kazaa has this network thing that you agreed to when you installed the software! that will allow them to use your computer as thier own little private network and have access to all files on you machine. You machine could also be used in a distributed computing exercise. Read for yourself here now if that's not bad enough... this article states "well now Kazaa, Morpheus and LimeWire are sneaking ... if you buy a CD from an affiliate of Amazon.com, say some charity, the software fools Amazon into crediting the commission to Morpheus[Kazaa], not the charity!"
There's more but you can read that stuff for yourself ... go to http://www.slashdot.org/ and type Kazaa in the search... be prepared there is alot of info here...most of not favorable for leaving this installed on your machine.
Ok you've uninstalled Kazaa next install Ad-Aware and see how many spyware/adware things you have on your system remove what you can... be careful this will make some things not work! Alot of things rely on the ad software being on your machine, you should just be aware of it being there. Again if you remove everything it will break some programs. Do the research before you go willy nilly removing ad/spyware.
Next install KaZaa lite. No Spyware! No Adware! ahhh p2p much mo' better!
Finally go to http://fasttrackmovies.com/ and have a clickfest! Read the forums... watch out for those fake files and enjoy. When clicking on a sig2dat file here it will not appear until you shut down and restart Kazaalite. You do not even have to have Kazaalite running to click away. Once you start Kazaalite after clicking all the sig2dats you want everything will appear queued up in the transfers. Sometimes they need a kickstart however... just do a find more sources... that will get it going.
Now on to more fun things... This guy scanned a vinyl record with is scanner and was able to extract the music from the image! Now that is kinda cool!
Selling your computer stuff on eBay? Careful now... Discarded computer hard drives prove a trove of personal info. Some guys bought a bunch of used hard drives on eBay and then data mined tons of personal info from them... credit card numbers, love letters and medical info... plus more they are not telling about!
Remember the Speak and Spell? Well someone had a good time hacking it into a... um... just go see it! Wow! Be sure and click the photos so you can see the extent of the madness!
Need an online game to kill some time... have a play of this. Fun!
Another one there is A pocket full of stars ... have the lot!
