Kazaa Users Beware!

[Case]

“A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network of its own.”


The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in as soon as four weeks. It plans to use the machines--with their owners' permission--to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks.

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[Alakazam]

This program seems to have more secrets then the kgb and the cia have together. Here`s there latest suprise as they call it. However we all know kazaa has already got spyware with it since day 1.

Kazaa's file swapping software downloads are again in the spotlight following complaints regarding New.net software, which comes bundled with the popular P2P download. Launched in March last year, New.net offers access to a series of domain names such as .shop and .sport, through partnerships with ISPs in Europe and the United States.

However, at the centre of the latest controversy is the distribution of New.net's software through affiliate partners iMesh, BearShare, Kazaa, and Grokster. The software in question is designed recognize domain names hosted by New.net, and add a .new.net suffix, so that non-partner ISPs can direct them to the appropriate IP address (for example, book.shop would be modified to book.shop.new.net).

However, Hernand took pains to point out that affilitate members were expected to make end users fully aware of the presence of the New.net software accompanying their downloads.

“As a matter of good business practice we have required our affiliates to indicate that our software is being bundled along with their downloads,” Hernand said. “We have been crystal clear since the beginning that there should be full disclosure so that end users are told they are getting our software as part of their download.

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