nobbly

KaZaA contains spyware from cydoor technologies which tracks your internet surfing habits in order to deliver those annoying banner and pop-up ads which comes with the KaZaA interface.


"i would recommend that nobody uses the previewing option in Kazaa as this takes a snap-shot of the data downloaded so far and bungs it into the windows temp folder. what this means is that if the file being downloaded contains a trojan or what have you, it will be copied to this temp file. SO, even when your virus scanner finds that the actual downloaded file contains a nasty, it may actually miss the one in the temp folder. I hope you catch my drift. "
from http://www.hackersdigest.com/kazaa.html

Some spyware info and spyware removal here:
http://www.simplythebest.net/info/spyware.html

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