Chip

Where can I get a free download of Kazaa lite or is it worth paying for it. If so where from.

chip.

zhastaph

I'm not sure that you can anymore

Sharman networks have recently threatened legal action to all sites hosting K-Lite, and so I believe just about everyone has withdrawn it.

However ...

You should have no problem downloading K-Lite using Kazaa, which is available for download Here.

1. Install Kazaa
2. Search for and download Kazaa Lite, the latest version is 2.4.3 I believe.
3. Unistall Kazaa and install Kazaa Lite.
4. You should also run Adaware or Spybot at this point to clear out all the ****e that is installed with the original version of Kazaa.

darlodge

Chip E-mail me.

Darren

boxst

Hello

You can download it for Sunday from:

http://www.sadandlonely.com/kl202e.exe

Or you can mail me.

Steve.

snowcrash

do a search in google for "k-lite"

Chip

Darren

YHM

Chip.

James Neill

iTrader: (1)

Take a look at Shareaza. It's free and no ads or syware.

www.shareaza.com

I think it's better than Kazza or KazzaLite

Daz34

I can email it to you if you want?

mynickers

As already offered I have copy so if you don't already have it off someone else, happy to email it to you!

Didn't realise they were taking legal action, suppose it was bound to happen eventually - better burn a copy quick

Rubbish these days anyway, I get really slow speeds, and often content not what it should be and of poor quality.

john_s

iTrader: (1)

I'd read somewhere that kazaa are supposed to be blocking kazaa lite clients from connecting. Anyone able to confirm this?

John

Daz34

Works fine for me

Davie

Is this shareaza program popular? I have downloaded it and it seems OK.....

James Neill

iTrader: (1)

Shareaza is one of the most popular. Most P2P clients use a standard P2P protocol (eg, gnutella or edonkey) which many clients implement - so using one client over another comes down to the features you want rather than what is the the most popular - as long at is supports a P2P standard it'll have access to lots of files.

For example - When you run Shareaza you'll see other users connect using a variety of clients.

535i sport

Im using kazaa lite and it doesnt seem as good as it used to be. Its always coming up with messages saying 'kazzalite is not connected' and my download speeds seem alot slower.
What would be the best alternative to kazaalite ?

Hobo_Jojo

my kazaalite works fine

535i sport

Ive just read that kazaalite will gradually stop working due to legal proceedings by the people that make the original kazaa. I use kazaalite alot to download alot of movies and music,what would be the best program to replace kazaalite with ? Is winmx any good ?

hedgehog

I've lost faith in WinMX recently. There doesn't seem to be many people sharing anything. Even when it looks like the thing you want is available it just sits in your queue.

I have been messing with emule lately and it seems to work somewhat better than WinMX.

Ideally run several at the same time until you get what you want. Don't forget to share though, most people on WinMX who are sharing are also running leechammer which kicks off anyone not sharing.

JohnnyRob

I was running KazzaLite, and agree that the traffic has dropped right off.

WinMX IMHO has never been that good. I installed Shareaza this afternoon and have already found a couple of applications which I cannot find elsewhere, so am well chuffed.

Shareaza gets my vote!

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Yeah I think Kazaa-lite is not a good as it used to...well, Kazaa in general. There's alot of fake or spoof file on there. PLus it's full of leachers these days too

WinMX was alright a few years back, but everything else just overtook it.

I may try out this Shareaza myself

535i sport

Ive been running shareaza for a couple of days now and i reckon its much better than kazaa or kazaa lite but ive been reading into file-sharing and it seems to me that its getting really dodgy now with the riaa sueing people for sharing copyrighted media. Is shareaza relatively safe to use if im using zonealarm pro as a firewall and im not keeping copyrighted media in the shared folder? I ask this because apparently shareaza broadcasts your ip address over the network,is this true and what does it mean ?

James Neill

iTrader: (1)

Shareaza shares whatever files you want to share. This means everything from mp3s, books, programs and the more dubious stuff. So if people share copyrighted stuff then yep - it's accessible. If you don't want it then don't download it. Similarly don't share copyrighted stuff and you're safe.

A software firewall like ZA is definately the right thing to do. It provides an extra layer of confidence.

There is nothing inherently wrong about giving out your IP address. You do this everytime you connect to a website. The IP address represents your virtual address so people can reach you (eg, so web servers can send back pages or people can download files from you using a P2P client). The safety net is that you decide whether to open the door or not (in techy terms these doors are called Ports). Various programs use different ports to do different things (there are thousands of them). Hackers look for ways to gain access to your computer through open ports and the sometimes "badly-designed" programs that listening on these ports (eg, the actual operating system in some cases)

Interstingly, tools like ZoneAlarm make sure these ports stay closed unless you specifically say so (you've probably noticed all the ZoneAlarm alerts asking you to validate program access to the Internet).

I wouldn't be unduly concerned with using tools like Shareaza - when you close it down the ports get closed and nothing can get in on those ports anymore until the next time to start it up.

An interesting site where you can test the security of your server is here. There are various tools here that let you scan your ports for open ones (that may indicate a security hole)

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2