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Old 22 October 2002, 09:08 AM
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I am in the lazy camp of PC usage and therefore am still cheerfully running Kazaa (rather than Kazaa lite). should I care?

people regulary mention spyware - what's the likely impact of this? given the number of users (it was claiming in excess of 30 million the other day) feels like a pretty low probability anyone being done by the authorities for illegal downloads.

prove me wrong to make me swap it over. Is Kazaa lite as good?

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Old 22 October 2002, 09:14 AM
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Spyware has nowt to do with whether the download is illegal or not. It's about whether or not your personal details (name, address, c/card, passwords, etc) are transmitted across the web by trojan software that's hidden in seemingly innocent client applications.

Kazzalite works absolutely fine, and is spyware free. I'd go for that IIWY.
Old 22 October 2002, 09:56 AM
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Agree with MarkO - spyware is the equivelant of those pesky customer surveys you get through the door with free pen
Old 22 October 2002, 10:32 AM
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Not quite the same DV!

You have a choice with the consumer surveys, you don't have much of a choice with the spyware!

Oh, and I work for one of those pesky consumer survey companys!
Old 22 October 2002, 12:58 PM
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Sorry Tango

Can you ask them to improve the quality of the free pens, they dont always work, and the feeling of writing with them is not too good
Old 22 October 2002, 01:49 PM
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Funnily enough we were talking about how crap those pens were on Monday!

Anyway stop being tight and buy a Bic!!

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I use Ad-Aware to clean all my spyware out, quick and simple

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