I installed Kazaa a few hours ago, and now I’ve just had my first dose of spyware in months. Can someone please post a link to one of those sites that detect the spyware you have in your machine, and those programs that remove the little beasts?
Get Ad-aware. It’s beautiful.
Many thanks
The problem is that if you use Adaware to clean out the spyware, Kaaza refuses to run…
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Get <a href=“http://security.kolla.de/”>Spybot</a> while you’re at it. It finds some stuff that Ad-Aware doesn’t.
Does Lite have spyware on it?
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Yes, just less.
cough cough DirectConnect cough
I first discovered how to do that from Rast’s site…at first I couldn’t manually uninstall them but I tried a couple times and it was actually quite fun. I felt important.
Originally posted by Wertigon
cough cough DirectConnect cough
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> I agree with Wert! 
And I’d like to add BitTorrent and IRC.
Get SpyHunter. It won’t clean it up for free, but it gives you the address and you can delete it yourself. I was able to delete most of it. All of it except one, but it has a .dll that runs constantly making it impossible to delete by normal means.
Thank you all. I’m getting rid of it today:get it?:
What exactly does spyware do?
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> It makes your computer suck. (Sends info to other places, records what you do, replaces DNS servers… generally bad things. It all depends on the program.)
Does anyone have a list of the spy- and ad-ware that Kazaa LITE installs? When I run Search and Destroy, it gives me a long list but doesn’t seem to be right…
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Oh, but it is. But it is. Delete it all.
I’ve been meaning to do something like this, thanks a lot guys.
Spyware has a way of trying to sound positive so that you don’t want to get rid of it, as well. For example; there’s this certain one on my machine called InternetOptimizer. That sounds like a good thing, but in reality, it doesn’t do anything other than hijack error pages and create pop-up ads out of nowhere, which make full-screen games that much harder to play.