Nero On Kazaa? Hmm... I Spy A Virus.

[Project E-01]

Yeah, just giving people a heads up. After no fewer than 8 attempts to download a certain program from kazaa, i've come to the conclusion its not possible. Why?

Because every single version on kazaa seems to contain the same worm as every other version. I don't have the name on hand (i rather stupidly closed the dialog box, and cant find the logs atm), but still, figured i best warn people to be on guard.

Addition : found the log. The worm name was SdDrop.P2P.B.1

[Cyril]

Can you let us know more details about which version etc. you were downloading.

[Spock4]

Never download programs off kazaa...
Get it off sites...

[Project E-01]

Originally posted by Spock4@10 January 2004 - 01:52
Never download programs off kazaa...
Get it off sites...
Yeah yeah, i know, I'm an idiot.

Cyril - tried a few different versions numbered from 5.5 to 6.7 (which is odd enough, the demo on their site is 6.3?)

[muchspl2]

just get the demo and find a crack or keygen, you got 30 days :rolleyes:

[Kane55686]

I would only use Kazaa Lite for music, and maybe SOME movies... But for anything else do use www.suprnova.org , or some other bit torrent website. You can even use www.sharereactor.com.

[BawA]

Huh :o

there is lots of virus free Nero, and u can allways use Verified section for file details or directly use the hash.

Btw Go here (http://klboard.ath.cx/index.php?act=ST&f=17&t=86449)

[Project E-01]

Actually, i tried a keygen and it told me "Nero has detected your attempt to ue an unlicensed key'.. or something. Then promptly uninstalled itself. :blink:

think im gonna find a crack instead. :)

[~FunK_mOb~]

If you go to the thread in bawa@Klite_user's link you'll see that mEtho has Nero 6.00.28+crack on his site.Here's the link (http://www.metho.2ya.com/)
I got it myself from there and it works flawless.(Thnx again to mEtho B) )

[fredricodagreat]

Originally posted by Kane55686@10 January 2004 - 05:36
I would only use Kazaa Lite for music, and maybe SOME movies... But for anything else do use www.suprnova.org , or some other bit torrent website. You can even use www.sharereactor.com.
Damn, I wish I had known about these earlier. Maybe I can get a faster d/l speed than .5 kb/s off of them. Anyways I've gotten programs off k-lite before and only had a few problems, anything that had a virus in it got caught right off by Norton. Btw, what are the chances of me finding a virus in a .wmv file? Or any other video file in general for that matter.

~Speedy

[Switeck]

Originally posted by fredricodagreat@10 January 2004 - 23:46
Btw, what are the chances of me finding a virus in a .wmv file? Or any other video file in general for that matter.

~Speedy
TECHNICALLY, a virus file could be renamed anything.

However a virus (exe, com, bat, pif, scr...) that's been renamed to .wmv is basically harmless because MOST video players don't run executeable code from would-be video files.

One notable exception is Windows Media Player... a .vbs virus renamed as a MP3 file CAN be activated by Windows Media Player. But such files are generally VERY small unless they have overwritten larger existing video files.

If you manage to get a VIRUS from a video file, you've almost managed the impossible at this point -- and antivirus companies might pay you a little money for your 'find'.

On the OTHER hand, WMV and ASF trojan files are very possible -- these can also be renamed as MPG, AVI, and potentially almost any other video (or even audio) file extension and still run. Typically, all these do is open a website... BUT the website may contain further exploits -- ranging from as simple as a web cookie that documents that you (ie:your ip and time) played that file, to a web script that gathers personal info stored in predictable windows registry keys, to a IE exploit which installs a REAL trojan or virus which can do further damage...

[fredricodagreat]

So I can probably safely say that when I throw a firewall and an Antivirus program into the mix, the possibilities are pretty close to none.
Ok thanks,

~Speedy

[lee551]

i just downloaded nero 6 w/ keygen from kazaa lite yesterday and it works fine, no virus :)

[Switeck]

Originally posted by fredricodagreat@11 January 2004 - 01:17
So I can probably safely say that when I throw a firewall and an Antivirus program into the mix, the possibilities are pretty close to none.
Ok thanks,

~Speedy
Yes, if you DON'T give your media player program internet access all should be fine.

[internet.news]

When downloading tools from Kazaa Lite K++ Users:

1. Look on the Filesize - if it is aroung 100KB or really small, that might be
a virus, dialer or etc.

2. Only download from K-Lite if you can't find in the internet.