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Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on Kazaa. I'm thinking of registering with it but have heard about spyware and stuff like that.

I'm on a broadband connection, but I do have a firewall program.

Is it safe, and has anyone had any bad experiences with it? (I mean REALLY bad).

Thanks for your time,

Rob

I second that motion.

Me too. It rocks.

www.kazaalite.com

Anyone heard of KazaaLite?

Kazaa minus the spyware. I've used it for a few months, troublefree.

forget kazaa go for imesh it's spyware free, URL for it is a bit obvious just ad a .com LOL


and if you have kazaa download files that need to be done still bung em in the imesh directory and it will reuse them to.

tis what i did but imesh and kazaa aint the best out there but they are the easiest to use.

Well, it wasn't KaZaA or my clumsy self :D the hdd burntout, shame nothing was backed up but my dad's mates rebuilding it apparently...

1 fan is not enough to run a PC!

Let's blame KaZaA for all of this!

Yah! Down with KaZaA!

Turbonutter wrote:
> Garin wrote:
> Of course, but there's always at least a few 100mbs floating around
> (depending on RAM) that the filesystem doesn't know where to find any
> more. It thinks the original is junk, and doesn't know where the new
> block is. You can either lose something vital, or the filesystem
> chokes and screws over, as has happened here.

Yes well whatever, its quite pointless speculating why his computer did crash and what the actual results were. :)
Defragmenters do not try to do things in one go, and certainly nothing like loading in hundreds of meg of files, and then deleting the files, and writing them back to the HD as you originally suggested.
Generally such programs are designed to be minimal risk, ie not take chances with data like that.

-G

Garin wrote:
> Turbonutter wrote:
> Um, moving blocks of files requires you to delete it in the first
> place...
>
> Not really..
> All that happens is that the data is copied to a different part of the
> disk, then the file system is updated to specify where the data now
> is.
> The old data is just left, of course, its flagged as free space since
> theres no reference to it anymore.
>
> -G

Of course, but there's always at least a few 100mbs floating around (depending on RAM) that the filesystem doesn't know where to find any more. It thinks the original is junk, and doesn't know where the new block is. You can either lose something vital, or the filesystem chokes and screws over, as has happened here.

I think it's funny when people say "Hard Reset" *mumbles a laughs and stops*

I thought something was a bit funny...

Imagine doing a hard reset after it just deleted a 100mb piece of data!