Hi all,

I was wondering how safe it is to use kazaa (light). With that many
kazaa users connected to the net it must be an even better target for
trojans and viri than IE and outlook. Are there any known exploits, or
is the kazaa architecture robust enough to withstand these kind of
attacks. And if there is a risk here, can you trust a scanner like
mcafee to find such a trojan/virus or is a more advanced protection
tool required?

Grtz,

- ScorpioN -

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:11:14 -0400, "Peter" <peterf41@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

I've learned that much current advice "out there" is wrong.

Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

"ScorpioN" <scorpion@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message news:3f2e07a7.7523500@news.euronet.nl...
As for the software itself

There is at least one vulnerability with KaZaA (actually the underlying
FastTrack network) which should be fixed in the newest version), and
as far as I know KaZaA (lite) is just KaZaA with the bundled software
removed.

There is also some talk of a vulnerability (possible exploit) with the way
KaZaA makes advertisements display. It wasn't clear from my reading
whether or not it is KaZaA proper, or the bundled software that is
affected.

Aside from the possible software vulerabilities within the program,
filesharing, in and of itself, poses a large security risk.

Yes, a much more advanced tool is indeed required.

What do you consider to be a more advanced than a "scanner
like McAfee"? As much as people here like to say this sucks
compared to that, and that sucks if you add cabbage detection
to the test set, in my opinion they are all pretty advanced. But
none of them will "protect" you from yourself.

Yes, you guessed it, the advanced tool required is knowledge,
and implementation, of safe computing practices.