Re: KaZaA - Bad Zone

[Gideon12 <gideon12 () rocketmail com>]

Just be aware that, in order to stop pop up ads, Kazaa Light installs its own
HOSTS file into %Windir%.  This has the negative affect of not allowing you
to view several legitimate web sites, including Yahoo Maps, since the HOSTS
file redirects the URL to your loopback adapter.


------
Kazaa lite doesnt have ads or spyware. http://www.kazaalite.com/

PLUS it works great with Wine (http://www.winehq.com/) :)

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:53:05AM -0700, David Krum wrote:
> To follow up my mid Oct post:
>
> KaZaA is still launching ads in the local zone.  KaZaA was contacted 6 
> Jan 03 via their bug report page.
>
> "Pop-up ads are being spawned from the local hard disk.  This puts 
> them in the local zone.  Scripts running in this zone can be harmful."
>
> I am now awaiting their response.
>
> To immunize KaZaA from this defect I have removed the permissions from 
> the directory it launches ads from.  This has a nice side effect of 
> not showing ads.  The directory to secure is:  %WinDir%\AdCache
>
> David

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com