Turning off kazaa (used to be: file sharing for linux)

[jason pearl]

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 18:46, Alex Olivas wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> > gm wrote:
> >
> >> Hey
> >> I was wondering if anyone could suggest a file sharing program (aka
> >> kazaa,fast track,etc) for linux? (plz include the link to the site)
> >
> >
> > Do not, under ANY circumstances, install kazaa on ANY system.  It is
> > a massive security hole and guarantees that your system can and
> > will be hacked.  It's not as bad on Linux, but it's still horrible.
> > Firewalling it out can be a nightmare as well.
> >
> > The authors of kazaa should be taken out and beaten senseless.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> > - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
> > -                                                                    -
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> i was told you can turn off the port that kazaa uses.  i share internet 
> access with roommates.  i use linux
> and never bothered with any file sharing.  my other roommates use 
> windows and one just introduced
> the other to kazaa.  after a night of sucking all our bandwidth i 
> considered trying to turn off kazaa (i'm
> kind of the house sys-admin).  i use my computer for work, so in 
> addition to all of the other normal
> reasons, i really don't want my system to get hacked.  so i have two 
> questions...
> 1) is my system at risk as well if they use kazaa? and...
> 2) can anyone tell me how to block access to kazaa?
> thanks,
> alex.
> 
> 
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have them delete kazaa run a virus program because of the savenow and
other adware,,, then have them download bearshare .... it works great..
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