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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

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

Garin wrote:
> Turbonutter wrote:
> Well, defragging deletes large amounts of your harddisk (100mb+),
> stores it in the RAM then writes it to a new section of the disk, to
> increase efficiency (and make up for the inadequacies of FAT32). So,
> obviously, if your PC crashes while doing this, you've got real
> problems...
>
> I sometimes wonder why you persist in well, making stuff up. You seem
> to feel the need to post on every topic spouting your supposed
> knowledge, if you really don't know something you apparently make it
> up.
>
> I mean even if you really can't be bothered using google to find out
> how they work, surely common sense tells you that no nobody in their
> right mind is gonna write a program that deletes 100s of meg at a time
> of your HD. Apart from anything else its inefficient and not really
> needed to defrag a HD.
>
> -G


Um, moving blocks of files requires you to delete it in the first place...

And the revolt against rob continues...

GoGoGo Garin!

Turbonutter wrote:
> Well, defragging deletes large amounts of your harddisk (100mb+),
> stores it in the RAM then writes it to a new section of the disk, to
> increase efficiency (and make up for the inadequacies of FAT32). So,
> obviously, if your PC crashes while doing this, you've got real
> problems...

I sometimes wonder why you persist in well, making stuff up. You seem to feel the need to post on every topic spouting your supposed knowledge, if you really don't know something you apparently make it up.

I mean even if you really can't be bothered using google to find out how they work, surely common sense tells you that no nobody in their right mind is gonna write a program that deletes 100s of meg at a time of your HD. Apart from anything else its inefficient and not really needed to defrag a HD.

-G

No probs.

Thanks, well, my dad still blames me :D bit of a coincidence that I delete something and my PC goes down :) but thanks for the reasurrance ;)

Well, defragging deletes large amounts of your harddisk (100mb+), stores it in the RAM then writes it to a new section of the disk, to increase efficiency (and make up for the inadequacies of FAT32). So, obviously, if your PC crashes while doing this, you've got real problems...

However, I doubt it was AdAware that did this.

ok, I blame you all!!
I tried the AdWare thingy, seemed ok although it didn't change anything so I decided to de-frag *shrugs* dunno why, that never seems to change anything either, anyway, it got to 60% crashed and now my C:\ doesn't load, some kind of block error on it, now i'm viewing on 640x480 res at 16 colours :D

slowing re-installing the drivers but so far, i've lost all my files :(

anyone got an idea what might have happened?
I was thinking it might be a virus but it my PC was offline and no one had touched it for about an hour after I used the AdWare software.

I might not be online in the next few days anyway but any ideas would be very cool :) thanks.

Me neither. BTW, Kazaa's firewall is useless.

KaZaA has a firewall in it and i have never had any problam with it.