Are U Still Using Kazaa Or Kazaa Lite? [Archive]

kurse

03-09-2005, 08:29 AM

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!

For those of you have been living under a rock and still use any Kazaa application, there are now way better music,movies,applications,etc. File searching programs available. Kazaa is full of FAKE FILES-files that are not what they are listed as. Kazaa is bundled with spyware/adware/viruses and too many fake files to handle. Kazaa Lite or new/other is no different, you can still be downloading spyware/adware/viruses by downloading fake files.

Say you want to listen to that new song by 50 cent and you see it listed from the search results that came back, well, it might seem safe to download because it says that it is the new song by 50 cent, but MOST likely, it is not. Kazaa is filled with filthy and unhealthy crap for your computer. The RIAA and MPAA have basically poluted KAZAA/Kazaa lite/Other with corupted or fake files to an extent where your just downloading nothing.

What's hot right now?

Good question, here are a few programs that are spyware/adware free, unlimited searches, rarely any fakes or corrupted files, easy to use and some a little more advanced.

1.Ares/ Ares Lite (www.aresgalaxy.org) Kazaa-like easy interface
Ares is a free peer to peer file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc.
You may now easily publish your files through the Ares decentralized network. As a member of the virtual community, you can search and download just about any file shared by other users.
With Ares you can also join chat rooms or host your channel and meet new friends.

2. Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com/)
Shareaza is the most luxurious and sophisticated file sharing system you'll find. It can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2 (G2).
Not only that, but Shareaza is completely FREE and won't show any annoying ads or pop-ups. It won't install any unwanted third party programs that can wreak havoc with your computer. No spyware, no registration, no "paid version". Just download and use. Simple.

3. Bittorrent (www.bittorrent.com) FOR ADVANCED USERS or go to http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/romeria/howto.htm to learn how to use this software. Great for movies!!

{I}{K}{E}

03-09-2005, 09:49 AM

What's hot right now?

Bittorrent should be nr.1 and is not only for advanced users, you should also add newsgroups and mIRC

100%

03-09-2005, 10:20 AM

Even RIAA and MPAA agree with this thread.

Vargas

03-09-2005, 11:41 AM

but 2.5 million users CAN'T all be wrong. :p

Aaron_T

03-09-2005, 12:19 PM

i use shareaza and kazaa lite, although i admit that shareaza is the better program i still use k-lite for things such as video as i tend to get better results, and certain songs which dont show up on shareaza, do on k-lite.

BawA

03-09-2005, 02:19 PM

finaly somebody came with this post, serioucly we needed this.
thanks
please pin this!!!

{I}{K}{E}

03-09-2005, 02:39 PM

finaly somebody came with this post, serioucly we needed this.
thanks
please pin this!!!

no need for a sticky. it doesnt have enough info about alternatives.

Peerzy

03-09-2005, 03:52 PM

Also why not FTP's?

Filliz

03-09-2005, 03:58 PM

no need for a sticky. it doesnt have enough info about alternatives.

I think he was being sarcastic :P

Well,I hope :ph34r:

Arm

03-09-2005, 04:20 PM

Kazaas still got the best porn. Though trying to download it can be hard.

isamma

03-09-2005, 07:57 PM

ahem?????

did you ever tried k-lite 2.7 beta 4

see this: http://www.filesharinghelp.com/internationalforums/index.php?showtopic=10766

Autumn Fox

03-09-2005, 10:27 PM

It's not 2.4 milion users ;) Thoes are just online at the moment, the userbase is about 30 times bigger ^_^

And the best file sources are your friends and universities and their networks (especially thoes at the dorms =) ).

K-Lite is best for looking for certian files and for sampling for new things and most certainly not the tracker's never down ;P

Formula1

03-09-2005, 11:49 PM

Kazaas still got the best porn. Though trying to download it can be hard.

kazaa sucks for pot, its a compilation of child porn and fakes!!! Anyways i use BT sites such as puretna.com for hot fresh/legal porn lol :cool:

Arm

03-10-2005, 12:37 PM

kazaa sucks for pot, its a compilation of child porn and fakes!!! Anyways i use BT sites such as puretna.com for hot fresh/legal porn lol :cool:
Sucks for pot eh? :smoke: :smoke: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Thats fucking fuckung funny., :lol:

And all the other peer-to-peer progs(besides bittorrent, at least not openly) are full of fakes and kiddie porn too.

showstopper496

03-10-2005, 09:20 PM

Welcome to 2 Years Ago

Mïcrösöül°V³

03-11-2005, 01:05 AM

Pornbits is the best for porn, or empornium, or the local video store, but then you look like a perv walking out with 10 vids.

Saraband

03-15-2005, 07:17 AM

...but then you look like a perv walking out with 10 vids.
u R a sick perv

Harsh!

03-15-2005, 07:47 AM

Never again...
It was great in its hey-days, but gone to crap now....

ulrick

03-15-2005, 05:20 PM

Kaz....what. I don't even remember the name

isamma

03-15-2005, 11:45 PM

again i will say try the new k-lite and then you may have different openion

http://www.filesharinghelp.com/internationalforums/index.php?showtopic=10766

Expire

03-15-2005, 11:53 PM

Sucks for pot eh? :smoke: :smoke: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Thats fucking fuckung funny., :lol:

And all the other peer-to-peer progs(besides bittorrent, at least not openly) are full of fakes and kiddie porn too.

yeah i agree with that...I think kazaa is stilll the best for porn this simply because of the speed I can get it.

It get deleted just as quick :)

kurse

03-17-2005, 04:10 AM

DO NOT USE KAZAA......BAD......VERY BAD

BITTORRENT.............GOOD.........VERY GOOD.

I guess the people who download porn off Kazaa deserve to get spyware/ad-aware, viruses, trojans, pop-ups (porn vids), and shitty files. KaZaa etc. is basically a dirty hand from an 8 year old playing in the dirt and Bittorrent is like a seed growing into a tree producing bright green leaves.

digmen1

04-02-2005, 07:14 PM

I stopped using K Lite abotu 6 months. I used it for about a year and love dit. Then those fake files started coming. I now use Ares and get good results for rock videos, xxx vid clips, and songs. But Limewire has a bigger number of files being shared, but I don't like its interface as much as Ares or K Lite.

Another problem with Kazza is/was the ridiculous number of differenet versions !!

Have never tired Bittorent etc as I am only on 56K dial up. Cos I can't afford Broadband as our telco in New Zealand is too bloody greedy.

regards

Digby
NZ

imasoldier

04-07-2005, 07:53 PM

Wow are you guys just ignoring isamma or what...

isamma

04-07-2005, 08:47 PM

i think they like to chat like my old grand mom about nothing and every thing?

milhousse

04-08-2005, 04:31 PM

kicked kazaa off the computer a long time ago. too much re-named crap on there (especially larger files)

isamma

04-08-2005, 10:08 PM

kicked kazaa off the computer a long time ago. too much re-named crap on there (especially larger files)

may be you should look here
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/forumdisplay.php?f=18 ;) :cool:

P@itor

04-12-2005, 07:28 PM

Leviathan

04-13-2005, 06:53 PM

Kazaa lite is still going strong and will do so for some time yet

its up to 3.5 million users, who can't be sued all at the same time - one hell of a legal bill!

I cannot be f.ucked with Bitorrent its too complicated...most people aren't programmers

Barbarossa

04-14-2005, 08:33 AM

its up to 3.5 million users, who can't be sued all at the same time - one hell of a legal bill!

Statistics from Slyck today...

April 13, 2005 - 19:00

Network Users

eDonkey2K 3,393,173
FastTrack 2,799,869
Gnutella 1,293,233
Overnet 802,816
DirectConnect 329,371
MP2P 251,137
Filetopia 4,768

Expanded Stats Beta

It was over a year ago that there were 3.5 million consecutive users on FastTrack, they're deserting like rats leaving a sinking ship... :lookaroun

isamma

04-14-2005, 10:18 PM

oloz

04-14-2005, 10:42 PM

I use it here and there. Not as much.

davec8

04-15-2005, 11:16 PM

Statistics from Slyck today...
It was over a year ago that there were 3.5 million consecutive users on FastTrack, they're deserting like rats leaving a sinking ship... :lookaroun
Slyck's got FastTrack at 2.9 mil as of the 14th. I wouldn't call 3.5 mil to 2.9 mil. deserting like rats. For all the criticism FastTrack gets in forums, 2.9 mil is still a lot more users than most of any of the other networks has ever had. As for myself, I use ABC, emuleplus and Ares(just installed a week ago) ahead of K-Lite but it can still be useful.

RealitY

04-16-2005, 05:59 AM

I had never seen the apps as the issue as I liked them when I used them as I just see the network as being crap with all its flaws so why spend all the time and development and hang on to things that still need that network which in the end it dosent matter what client you use or how great it is or what it does as your still supporting Sharman on some level which is company I dont see any reason to support on any level which you are doing if you share on there since it makes the network more attractive to those that get the KMD version with bloated pc fking crap. As for why I dont use it is just because Ive found better simply put...

vegeta_ssj12

04-20-2005, 10:32 PM

I only use kazaa lite for songs. They go much faster than on emule.

i also use newsgroups (grabit) but only if i know that what i want is on the groups.

mysterioushu

04-23-2005, 09:13 PM

I use Kazaa Lite every once in a while. It's nowhere near as good as it used to be, though.

thewizeard

04-24-2005, 11:07 AM

may be this pic will tell u something

It tells me that you blanked out the fact that you are not sharing.... :D

Oke I have never used KaZaa only ever used K-Lite...and still do, occasionally.. :)

uNz[i]

04-25-2005, 05:02 AM

Haven't had any fasttrack client installed for at least the past 18 months.
There's just a lot of better ways of getting the files I want now.

P@itor

04-29-2005, 06:07 PM

It is actually a great project. With the fake checker and all. I haven't used kazaa for a year now but then I needed some songs from BoA and that is almoast impossible to find.

I have searched all the torrentsites that I can find! Anyway, the only place to find rare music and other stuff is KaZaA.

I take it back. I found a webpage where I could download the whole albums =).
KaZaA goes down into the trashcan. K-Lite 2.7 Beta 4 is unstable and the fact that 98% of new songs are fake share makes it useless. Ok, there is Fake Analysis so you can find the 2% that still are real. But the work is too big for something that you can download fast and reliable with torrents.

It is easier to find whole quality albums with torrents. With KaZaA everything is shared in a big pile of shit.

But not everything is bad. Rare files that is hard to get is still found on KaZaA and therefore it can still be useful.

I wish that there would be a program that you could share everything on your hard drive to everyone like KaZaA, comment the files and of course folders with albums like torrents and have them searched and shared like DC++. The sharing should be untraceable and independent, but the users should still have the ability to chat with the uploaders and downloaders on the file/folder.

Someone please make my wish come true

kurse

04-30-2005, 07:35 AM

I wish that there would be a program that you could share everything on your hard drive to everyone like KaZaA, comment the files and of course folders with albums like torrents and have them searched and shared like DC++. The sharing should be untraceable and independent, but the users should still have the ability to chat with the uploaders and downloaders on the file/folder.

Someone please make my wish come true

Haha.... I wish I had a billion dollars.....................ok whos next?

Im just playing around P@itor. I wish that too!

kurse

04-30-2005, 07:37 AM

I wish we can download movies, music, documents, rare files, porn, pictures of all sorts, for free at high speeds and still share. O wait........BITTORRENT!!!!

LONG LIVE IT!!

P@itor

04-30-2005, 11:20 AM

I wish that there would be a program that you could share everything on your hard drive to everyone like KaZaA, comment the files and of course folders with albums like torrents and have them searched and shared like DC++. The sharing should be untraceable and independent, but the users should still have the ability to chat with the uploaders and downloaders on the file/folder.

Someone please make my wish come true

I wish we can download movies, music, documents, rare files, porn, pictures of all sorts, for free at high speeds and still share. O wait........BITTORRENT!!!!

LONG LIVE IT!!

But normally the files in bittorent is downloaded and then some mounths later gone bacause the user stops to share the files they have dowloaded.

matt526

05-06-2005, 12:23 PM

I have not used Kazaa for a year. I reinstalled it the other day and found
+/-500,000
more users then before. :w00t:

kalonation

05-06-2005, 01:04 PM

But normally the files in bittorent is downloaded and then some mounths later gone bacause the user stops to share the files they have dowloaded.

It's true. psp based programs are better because they keep the information longer. bittorent is only good for new things.
btw use ares. it is better than kazaa lite and kazaa

ThaAnswer

05-13-2005, 01:43 AM

Years, nah..I only stopped using it for like about
some months now and I'm not planning on going
back b/c of so many saying they gotten caught
by the mpaa using Kazaa

marekbielak2

05-13-2005, 03:44 PM

well, after smoking some more weed, i can not stand to give it a try. which is quite often :blink: torrents seem to be faster and more relyable - when you know the right tracker:)

Yoga

05-15-2005, 01:23 AM

Kazaaa is still good for getting porn

nabeelisnabeel

05-15-2005, 05:47 AM

nice post brother.

Aaron_T

05-15-2005, 02:20 PM

k-lite does have loadsa fake files but basically you just have to know what youre lookin for, ya can usually tell the files that are gonna work and the ones that arent, most of the time anyway.

and yes of course im still using it :P

cobrav2

05-25-2005, 07:53 PM

I find K-lite a nuisance myself, i tend to use bittorrents and limewire, usually throws up pretty much everything i need.

wrx04

05-28-2005, 11:30 AM

kazaa stopped connecting for me long time
use ares

jamesandpie

05-31-2005, 11:25 PM

...

badboyblue2k

06-01-2005, 02:34 AM

wow.. who does?! LimeWire is awesome

micolithe

06-01-2005, 02:42 AM

A SLSK/Limewire/Bit Torrent combo can't be beat. You can find anything. In fact, I have All Hail West Texas, and it's so hard to find that I'm seeding it right now. I've been seeding it for a few days and I got my first leecher today. I FEEL SO ACCOMPLISHED!

RPerry

06-01-2005, 02:49 AM

BT and private trackers, mixed with a bit of soulseek works perfect for me :)

pandapop

06-01-2005, 12:19 PM

i gave up on kazaa ages ago. i use limewire alot now

ThemaNIL

06-02-2005, 11:57 PM

Kazaa Is full of fakes & virus . leave it and move to other good software (bt,emule,dc++).

kwek_kwek_eate

06-03-2005, 10:39 AM

I'm also thinking of leaving kazaa lite now.. the problem is bittorrent (or any other torrent) doesn't work in my pc. I am under a company firewall & proxy. anybody who can guide me to be able to bypass them?

Thanks

losingstreak

06-04-2005, 07:08 PM

A SLSK/Limewire/Bit Torrent combo can't be beat. You can find anything.
I definitely agree with that!! Slsk tends to take forever sometimes, but it's so worth it.

Demonikus

06-12-2005, 07:07 PM

I left Kazaa a while ago.

fsusr

06-14-2005, 01:05 AM

I left Kazaa a while ago.

same here...full of fakes

Wallace_Askew

06-14-2005, 03:27 AM

Kazaa was at one time great, I loved it and supported it. I even posted verifieds on this board. But there are much better progrms out there now. For p2p I use Emule, been using it now for about 3 years and I still love it.

Bittorrent came along and now i use both. I use them for different reasons though...if I'm looking for just a song or a old tv episode I'll use Emule. For new content such as movies and TV episodes I use Bittorrent. I stopped using K-lite about a year ago...I got so sick of getting the fake squeeling mp3s. The first time I hard one I spilled coffee on myself cuz it scared the shit out of me:angry: ( I had very loud speakers at the time) I have not got one of those fake mp3s using Emule. I'm actually suprised about that. So Emule and Azureus are my weapons of choice ;)

Afronaut

06-14-2005, 07:07 AM

Have not installed any Kazaa for a loooong time I suppose.

Torrents and eMule are the main things for me.

orcutt989

06-14-2005, 02:30 PM

Have not installed any Kazaa for a loooong time I suppose.

Torrents and eMule are the main things for me.

Same here, I use Limewire Professional as my Kazaa Lite substitute, even though I still have K++ on my PC, I have not used it in a long time.

ejoeyb

06-14-2005, 05:59 PM

I stopped using Kazaa when all the spyware stuff was discovered.
I used it pretty much from the beginning. Originally it's download speeds were amazing.
It started a ranking system and suddenly download sppeds were shit. It was like stating from scratch after I had faithfully always kept my downloads avalable for sharing.
I now use bittorrent mainly, but also Shareaza a little.

madden player

06-15-2005, 04:58 AM

The last version of kazaa I had on my pc was kazaalite k++ 2.4.3 .. That was quite some time ago.

eMule is my kazaa replacement.

Wallace_Askew

06-18-2005, 03:39 AM

Ther is pretty much no reason to use Kazaa or K-lite anymore ;)

podgey

06-18-2005, 11:52 AM

The last version of kazaa I had on my pc was kazaalite k++ 2.4.3 .. That was quite some time ago.

still got it on mine :) use it if ares doesnt connect

Abel6376

06-19-2005, 11:30 PM

I´m not using it very much at this time but when i´ve to download a single .mp3

nabeelisnabeel

06-20-2005, 04:14 AM

kaza lite k++ is the best

AvatarKar

06-25-2005, 08:16 PM

I stopped using Kazaa a while back and I stopped using K-Lite once I discovered torrents. :)

tree_for

06-27-2005, 11:06 AM

I guess Fasttrack is still full of fakes... pls dont flame at me, but.... that is what I feel...
so no matter what client u use, u still get fakes...
BT is da best right now... so yup! K-Lite or Morpheus or anyother program which connects to FASTtrack makes no diff to me...

- Nightmare -

06-28-2005, 06:05 PM

To be honest I haven't used K-Lite in a long time. Every I download these days is through torrents and IRC (HTTP from time to time as well mainly for anime).

Gripper

06-28-2005, 07:39 PM

Still use it for some things,there are programs that can detect fake mp3(mp3 shield)so I screen using that and you learn to spot other fake files,you can also preview stuff to see if its fake,movies an things,been using torrents for games an movies now

kurse

06-29-2005, 12:11 AM

hey gripper103.2 Ive tried that weak mp3 shield and let me tell yah it wont get around it. Theres just too many, I mean way too many fakes on Fastrack network let alone KaZaA.

xcel

06-30-2005, 11:15 PM

Even direct connect are better :D

Floorfiller

07-01-2005, 04:13 PM

cabo p2p is the sh*t ;)

Hanz™

07-02-2005, 10:50 PM

cabo p2p is the sh*t ;)
Thats Cabo with an s...
And I wouldn't know what its like as I haven't tested it yet...
And I am not testing anything like that unless it has something that no other p2p does ie. faster speeds, or good security etc...

tralalala

07-03-2005, 01:32 PM

soulseek...........

Floorfiller

07-03-2005, 08:21 PM

abu_has_the_power

07-04-2005, 02:32 AM

i use limewire for old crap now

kazaa is polluted with fake bullshit and spyware and viruses and crazy hobos

PoOki

07-06-2005, 05:56 PM

im using kazaa lite...

BluexDreams

07-10-2005, 11:23 AM

I still use Kazaa Lite K++. There are still some good, non-corrupted files floating there.

remon86

07-10-2005, 01:37 PM

I use Limewire

fadedrocks

07-10-2005, 11:48 PM

kazaa lite is so so. i prefer bittorent by far

nemesis01

07-17-2005, 12:52 PM

dont use it anymore, used to use limewire but switched to bearshare for the odd mp3, use BT and eMule for everything else, oh and of course i do still buy stuff from shops.

am i getting old?

Fuzzo

07-21-2005, 01:33 PM

I kazaa lite much more, dont ask my why, I just dew.

ista

07-23-2005, 01:25 PM

Is there add-on software to anonymize Shareaza / hide user's IP?

SugarFrosted

07-23-2005, 03:46 PM

I use LimeWire now...too many fakes on Kazaalite these days :(
And I do buy music and DVDs as well.

net-cruizer

07-25-2005, 03:09 AM

I still use K++ 2.4.3 and still love it.
I've tried so many other p2p programs and hated em all.
Although I do use BitTorrent quite often.

LEGALIZE-MARIJUANA

07-25-2005, 06:09 AM

Because of how KaZaA has not been able to control these fake files I rarely use it any more. I won't say what I have switched to because I don't want the same thing to happen there.

LEGAL

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!

For those of you have been living under a rock and still use any Kazaa application, there are now way better music,movies,applications,etc. File searching programs available. Kazaa is full of FAKE FILES-files that are not what they are listed as. Kazaa is bundled with spyware/adware/viruses and too many fake files to handle. Kazaa Lite or new/other is no different, you can still be downloading spyware/adware/viruses by downloading fake files.

Say you want to listen to that new song by 50 cent and you see it listed from the search results that came back, well, it might seem safe to download because it says that it is the new song by 50 cent, but MOST likely, it is not. Kazaa is filled with filthy and unhealthy crap for your computer. The RIAA and MPAA have basically poluted KAZAA/Kazaa lite/Other with corupted or fake files to an extent where your just downloading nothing.

What's hot right now?

Good question, here are a few programs that are spyware/adware free, unlimited searches, rarely any fakes or corrupted files, easy to use and some a little more advanced.

1.Ares/ Ares Lite (www.aresgalaxy.org) Kazaa-like easy interface
Ares is a free peer to peer file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc.
You may now easily publish your files through the Ares decentralized network. As a member of the virtual community, you can search and download just about any file shared by other users.
With Ares you can also join chat rooms or host your channel and meet new friends.

2. Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com/)
Shareaza is the most luxurious and sophisticated file sharing system you'll find. It can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2 (G2).
Not only that, but Shareaza is completely FREE and won't show any annoying ads or pop-ups. It won't install any unwanted third party programs that can wreak havoc with your computer. No spyware, no registration, no "paid version". Just download and use. Simple.

3. Bittorrent (www.bittorrent.com) FOR ADVANCED USERS or go to http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/romeria/howto.htm to learn how to use this software. Great for movies!!

kurse

07-28-2005, 10:09 PM

UPDATE

Well, Well, Well
Never would have thought that this thread would be what it is today, but I'm glad it is. Months have passed by and believe it or not a lot has changed since the birth of this post but one thing remains certain, Kazaa/etc. and the Fastrack network is the same maybe even worse now. My best advise to anyone using Kazaa or those of you that are thinking of using it, DO NOT USE KAZAA!! I have an opinion like everyone else in this world, but it's your choice. I have made a new list of "Hot Applications" you guys might be interested in:

First runner up is:

1.) BITTORRENT-an amazing free program to strategically download and effectively upload files. The files can be movies, albums, pictures, documents, software and more.

Get it now at: www.bittorrent.com (Free)

The Pros: You can download huge files for free that usually cost money. You dont have to wait until a (file) comes out in stores for sale. Fast speed downloads, and 1 of 1000 chance of a fake file (my personal estimate). Easy to use program. A lot of sites to download files from.

Cons: The BIG Corporation companies such as RIAA/MPAA has tried crackin down on Bittorrent. Some files are bundled with major adware/spyware, but usually your asked to install something (if you have to install something to watch a video, do not do it and delete the file immediatley). It's hard for some people to find bittorrent sites:http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/t89539.html. Sometimes the file you want is not always listed to download, but requesting it to sites might help. You have to register to sites in order to download and a lot of sites are full.

2.) LIMEWIRE-a year 2000 KaZaa like application with it's easy to use interface. Perfect to Newbie's and for advance users.

Get it now at: www.limewire.com (Free)

Pros:-Limewire is extremely easy to use/download/upload files. It covers everything from music, videos, software, documents and pictures. It takes up very little sources of your computer. It has high speed downloads and it's great for new music. Limewire can detect bad files or if you already downloaded the same file before, it will tell you that you have.

Cons: You might find that Limewire sometimes has a short search list of your favorite rock band when your thinking, "hey KaZaA had way more search results". Limewire is still growing...be patient. There are some fakes, but not many.

FOR YOUR SAFETY: The 3 rules of safeness

1.) Always have a virus scanner on your computer recent and updated
Norton Antivirus www.norton.com
AVG antivirus www.grisoft.com
Mcafee Antivirus www.mcafee.com

2.) Always have a good Firewall to protect yourself from those intruders
Syagte www.sygate.com
ZoneAlarm www.zonelabs.com
Outpost www.agnitum.com
Recommend Peerguardian as a second opinion firewall www.methlabs.org/

3.) Always check and download for security patches from Microsoft.com to be kept secure.

Microsoft Updates http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

aoyv73

08-07-2005, 09:56 AM

No Full of fakes and cp..............

wimpynet

08-09-2005, 02:56 AM

its the same for me, now kazaa has a lot of fakes, and bad music files

dclol

08-11-2005, 11:19 AM

ye, haven't used it for a long time

Evil Fish

08-13-2005, 08:51 AM

i think limewire is the best bet for individual mp3s and stuff. irc for full albums. and usenet for movies and tv shows. bittorrent is way to slow most of the time for me. i like my movies in around an hour, not 5 or more like it can sometimes take on bt.

accat13

08-14-2005, 12:18 PM

NO but kazaa is still the best when it comes to testing ones antivirus....

maebach

08-15-2005, 01:53 AM

i stick to ares. or shareaza

Alien5

08-15-2005, 09:28 PM

i havent used kazza for a few months now

Alien5

08-16-2005, 11:55 AM

i just tryed to search for some music and all the files are fake im not using that anymore i think i will try limewire pro

Chipper

08-19-2005, 01:33 AM

I use ares and limewire for music. Kazaa man that i stopped that shit like 2 years ago. I use bittorrent for tv shows games movies and software. I love it cause i start downloading a game or movie at night then goto sleep wake up and its done yay.

Reffy

08-21-2005, 11:35 AM

Wow, I haven't used kazaa in such a long time i'm getting all nostalgic even thinking about it! Funny how things look a lot less useless when you look back...

oxygenuk

08-26-2005, 10:44 PM

i used k-lite the other day to download wolfenstein enemy terrority because when i tried downloading via http it died at 85%.

apart from that i never really use it, bit torrent and limewire for me

charley

08-27-2005, 09:44 AM

I'm using Kazaa lite and it really rocks.

tesco

08-28-2005, 04:31 AM

No.
Newsgroups mainly now, bittorrent and ares once in a while too.

asmithz

08-28-2005, 04:53 AM

Limewire for music, BIttorent for odd stuff, and ftp for everything new.

natedogg

08-28-2005, 08:52 PM

nope
i use limewire and ares for music

dalton1801

09-17-2005, 02:03 AM

kazaa is only good if you want crap. otherwise bittorrent all the way!

J-Kwon

09-18-2005, 03:15 PM

I usr Limewire pro or IM-L Peanuts for music, everything else I use BT

wiggle

09-20-2005, 06:54 PM

I'll say, I use KLTK++ 2.5 and I find it is good, there are 2.9M users on right now. I have no problems with fake files well hardly any, maybe that's because I usually just dl porn and no-one can be bothered to make a fake porn file I guess, unless you count all the silly 1kb 2kb up to 11kb files which are nothing but a grey picture saying something like adult-pages.com but you soon learn to ignore those. There are a lot of crap files too which are just adverts for porn sites, such as ideepthroat.com and these are really annoying, but they just get deleted. Can I also say that this version comes with a lot of default filtration, which stops a lot of the virus stuff and the nasty porn coming up in searches. Maybe that's why I rarely see these problems, I have actually never seen a virus on kazaa!

On the rare occasions I dl something other than porn a song for example, I have never had a fake file.

I stick to Kazaa, because I don't like having to get used to new technology, I like to stick to what I know how to work. I am considering Bittorrent because there is a file on there which I would like. and it isn't on Kazaa.

Surely it is only a matter of time before all fake files start to appear on these other platforms.

Having said this I just dl'd a file of the mash theme tune, and when I play it real player just freezes up, I suppose this is what you might call a fake file, I prefer to think of it as a corrupt file until proven otherwise.....edit: It was just my computer being wacky, I did a reboot and the file is fine.

ISAMMA,

Instead of just posting some link, why don't you say why you think your new version of kazaa viewer is any better, does it somehow filter out the trash? if so how does it do it?

Cheers all :)

Barbarossa

09-21-2005, 08:49 AM

Surely it is only a matter of time before all fake files start to appear on these other platforms.

Well, no, not really... ;)

Other platforms have superior file-hashing than kazaa, and will create the hash using the whole file, not just the first 300kb (or whatever), so it's not as easy to create fake sources on other networks, as it is on Kazaa.

twisterX

09-24-2005, 02:18 AM

true true

Xilon

09-25-2005, 05:12 AM

People still use Kazaa? :O omg... people, Get shareaza ffs! I would have thought that everyone at least moved onto ed2k... damn this is shocking.

Wolfmight

09-25-2005, 11:03 PM

No! all my downloads were always currupt!
I only go Emule or Bitorrent. Emule is the best right now...you find anything, plus the speeds are much better with KAD now of days. I got 20-50kb/s average.

Aaron_T

09-26-2005, 12:13 PM

im not using any type of kazaa anymore, im happy with Ares and eXeem, what more could a young lad hope for :P

Xilon

09-27-2005, 03:35 AM

eXeem is also virus/fake infested, similarly to the FastTrack network, I'd suggest just using private bittorrent sites and using a normal torrent client. I highly recommend switching to a Gnutella2 client, it's the fastest network of it's sort around. It's main client is of course Shareaza, which can connect to Gnutella2 (G2), Gnutella, ed2k and protocols like BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP.

although ed2k is the most popular network right now, the network is poorly constructed. The speeds may be pretty good but that's onyl if you get a slot, and getting a slot of pretty damn hard... wait a week and maybe you'll get one ;)
G2 on the other hand is quite new, probably the newest network around. It's queues are much smaller and it's a way better network than ed2k, not to mention Kazaa...

blue_1

09-29-2005, 10:53 AM

mrbluesman

09-29-2005, 05:26 PM

I was using Kazaa resurection for a bit but dumped it when the RIAA started issuing lawsuits against users, I get everything off Torrent sites now.

twisterX

10-03-2005, 02:52 AM

Hell No. I moved on a long time ago.

georgia_v

10-05-2005, 10:54 AM

:P i was using it too....but not anymore....

Aaron_T

10-14-2005, 12:48 PM

recently ive had to go back to k-lite as ares wont work properly with my router, just as a LAST resort.

SiniSt3r

11-11-2005, 07:48 AM

ever since i heard about torrents ive stopped using kazaa lite .

georgia_v

11-15-2005, 09:45 AM

Have used it but not anymore!

kayvanblue

01-04-2006, 08:12 PM

i stoped using kazza 3 mounth ago

maebach

01-06-2006, 12:53 AM

I thought kazaa was dead :unsure:

desihotchick

01-07-2006, 10:19 AM

Kazaa, no ways, BT & Limewire( for singles ) for me.

MagicNakor

01-07-2006, 03:15 PM

Yep, I still use it on occassion. Strangely, I can find more of the obscure singles on it than I can on anything else.

:shuriken:

HairlessApe

01-08-2006, 05:05 AM

yeah, I also only use klite for the more obscure searches

shazzar

01-10-2006, 06:35 AM

Havent used it for a long time and dont plan too, always the chance of downloading viruses& trojans or corrupted/useless files.

massiveman

01-23-2006, 08:47 AM

Stopped using Kazaa nearly a year ago now. Bittorrent is the future.

fester32

01-23-2006, 09:11 PM

I am quite frankly amazed anyone still uses kazaa or kazaa-lite. It is very well documented now that the MPAA and RIAA are watching kazaa and thats where they caught most of the tens thousands of people they are now prosecuting. They have also been polluting the kazaa network with fake files to the stage where it was reported that over 50% of files are fake.
I used kazaa many years ago when it was still fairly fresh and uncorrupted, but all you get now are mislabelled files/fake files/viruses/trojans etc.
I think I have tried most different programs (ares/limewire etc) but have found nothing except for newsgroups that matches bittorrent in any way.
If you get yourself registered to a good private tracker the download speed and also the speed of releases is unparallelled.
I have also never yet had any fake files/viruses/trojans etc from b.t. although I have noticed an increase in this kind of behaviour from torrents uploaded to public trackers especially torrentspy. That is where the advantage of using private trackers lies. Members always seed their files and dont post fakes due to getting site banned. This keeps torrents healthy and fast.
If you dont want the hassle of trying to get access to topsites via newsgroups and irc, then bittorrent is the only other smart option.