Who is using it and has anybody had any problems with it ?

Dave

 

Yes and No

 

Never had any problems at all with it. excellent resource

 

Got well over 100gb

 

where can I download it? Am heartily sick of the adverts and ****e on the standard Kazaa so not reinstalling that on the new build.

cheers
Gordo (bloody hell, Si, I'm at 30Gb and thought I had a lot! )

 

Im looking at another hard drive got two 80gb ones lol

Use kazaa lite

Si

 

http://www.kazaalite.nl/nl/

 

Try not to share too many files with people. It crashes all the time if you do.

 

Anybody had any issues with the software allowing access to other parts of the PC besides the shared area.

Any issues with virus or worms.

Just interested because I am working on somebodies PC that has the lite version installed and there seems to be a lot on the network !

Dave.

 

Plus it is always so slow .. they are never seeing higher than 15kbs

 

Has anyone ever "sport searched". Do a search for *.xls and you'd be suprised what you find

 

What will be find

ive seen a few documents that they claim are FBI ones

 

Just tried the *.xls .... ffs don't these people realise !

I guess they have shared from the top down !

 

lol might search *.frm might get course work

 

Either that or a nasty virus

[Edited by DJ Dunk - 2/28/2003 3:37:37 PM]

 

Just do a search on P2P (peer to peer) programs, rogue protocols and KaZaA (lite or otherwise) and you'll know why we advise clients never to let these apps within a million miles of your coporate LAN (or home PC for that matter). If you think I'm scare mongering, we have had customers whose networks have been compromised by such programs.

Chris

 

Chris,

How much risk on a home pc running norton internet security and a router running a firewall as well ?

Is the exposure to other files manageable if configured correctly or is the risk else where.

I don't want to suggest taking it out unless there is a very solid risk. From some of the issues I am finding it is only if you allow wider access.

Dave.

 

Dave

I only post this kind of thing as general warning. The problem with these kind of apps is that they can be basically configured to run as HTTP (TCP port 80) or something similar which your average firewall will see as legit traffic. We have documented cases at work of virus / trojan apps being sent 'under' or 'through' the normal flow of data i.e. a music download from KaZaA - the firewall will see this as a legitmate http traffic flow and allow it through. The end user was completely unaware that this had happened.

How good your AV software is depends on how up to date it is. The same applies to intrusion detection systems - most rely on a signature file similar to an AV signature file. IDS is improving all the time, but it is not fool proof and many systems can only detect and not block an attack - big difference.

This is why we advise against these apps (it can also apply to MS Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger) at the current time. There is also the very real issue of employees downloading illegal and/or copyright protected material which could land the company he works for in trouble aswell.

It's all about percentage risks and what you are prepared to accept. These apps will always exist and many people will use for them and never experence a problem. I prefer not to trust them at the moment.

Chris

 

Cheers Chris,

Sounds like I need to suggest a spare PC just for downloading networked in !

Dave.