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Apr 3, 2002, 8:25pm

I would suggest you read this. It is a privacy issue with kazaa and a
bandwidth and processing power stealing company known as Brilliant.

SW Chris

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2859775,00.html

Apr 3, 2002, 9:47pm

OMG! I uninstalled kazaa a few days ago tho.

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Apr 3, 2002, 9:56pm

ahh, stupid shit companies being sneeky like that, makes u wanna go to there
companies and go past every executive office, and kick there asses
one-byo-one!
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Apr 3, 2002, 9:58pm

I should be safe right? if I uninstalled?

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Apr 3, 2002, 10:31pm

think so lol, just to be sure do i serch on brilliant (on ur pc) and delete
the stuff, or something like that lol
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Apr 3, 2002, 11:02pm

*shrug* it's not a virus and it only uses the excess power and bandwidth,
which means you would never notice a thing. Your computer wouldn't run any
slower or any more unstable. It's good marketing. Also, if you read the
article, you'll notice that it hasn't started to be used yet. When it
starts, there will be a place in the settings to allow your computer to do
this or not. I assume they'll give you special privelages for doing it
otherwise noone would. Also, people who don't know about this will have it
on by default. It's very good marketing and a good use for their program.
It's perfectly legal. At least that part is, I'm not sure about the file
sharing laws that exist on that portion of the program :-P

I suggest winMX to all of you who are leaving Kazaa though.
www.winmx.com

It's not nearly as pretty as the kazaa software, but it's certainly useful,
has more features, and doesn't lag as much on slower computers.

Apr 4, 2002, 12:07am

search for AD-Aware on somewhere liek download.com

run that, it will detect all known spyware. Dunno if brilliant is on there
though

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Apr 4, 2002, 8:46pm

It will be in a week or so if it isn't.

SW Chris

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Apr 4, 2002, 8:50pm

Perfectly, legal, but they still do it without your knowledge, which if I'm
mistaken is something a lot of folks around here don't particularly like
(referencing 7 accusations against AWC).

In fact, I don't like it. Who said they could get something for free that I
bought or am paying for? Absolutely not. I'll stick with WinMX. No way
they are going to take advantage of me.

SW Chris


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Apr 4, 2002, 8:58pm

lol, alright. It doesn't change how things work for your so if I was in your
shoes, I wouldn't care iether way.

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Apr 4, 2002, 9:13pm

well it isnt legal for them to keep on updating the program, since that
wasnt written in the fine print :D
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Apr 5, 2002, 12:05pm

in your Windows system dir there is a DLL called cd_client.dll, delete it,
it's part of Cydoor, spyware stuff... also stuff in the registry from KaZaA
and Cydoor, just delete everything in the registry containing those words
(use regedit).

KAH

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Apr 5, 2002, 6:54pm

uhh.... ok. lol.

The fine print determines the users rights in using the software, not the
companies, but I see where you're going with it. :)

btw.. my last message? the 7 in the "7 accusations against awc" part should
be deleted. typo that.

SW Chris

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Apr 8, 2002, 6:52am

http://home.neo.rr.com/grizzly/morpheus/morpheus.html gets rid of the
spyware :)


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