XP and evil Kazaa?

[sebanaj]

Does Kazaa reduce the resources even when it's closed, even from the task manager and the processes?!

I always wanted to uninstall the little thief, but family would be annoyed.

 

[cgannon64]

Kazaa installs lots of spyware.

Soulseek is the way to go.

 

[Goober]

Nah, I prefer Imesh. I still think that Kazaa led to most of my problems with Internet Exploder - Er, "Explorer" of course - getting a virus on my Machine. Imesh seems fairly decent.

 

[bobgote]

is it kazaa lite or regular kazaa?

 

[taper]

Imesh puts GAIN on your system, don't use it. WinMX is spyware free.

 

[Archer 007]

Imesh is annoying on top of it (its what my family uses, glad I have my own system and live away from them).

Kazaa K++ is the way to go. No spyware.

 

[Comraddict]

imesh is even worse, it installs up to 5 spyware programs.

 

[sebanaj]

win mx is the best

 

[Hawkster]

kazaa runs several process - including peer to peer networking and the points manager - even when you close the kazzaa media manager these processes remain active - even if your internet connection is closed. Add in the gain network advertising software etc etc then yes it does use up resources even when it is not running.

 

[KaNick]

I used to have kazaa and Imesh on my computer but removed them. Now i have millions of popups and can no longer us IE, I had to seek refuge in Netscape. Does anyone know haw to get this spy/adware of my system?

 

[hbdragon88]

Originally posted by GrandMasta Nick
I used to have kazaa and Imesh on my computer but removed them. Now i have millions of popups and can no longer us IE, I had to seek refuge in Netscape. Does anyone know haw to get this spy/adware of my system?

Download Ad-Aware or Spybot Search and Destroy and run a scan.

 

[KaNick]

Thanks dragon. I already have the freeware version of adawar, it got some but most were left untouched. I'll give Spybot a try though.

 

[Achinz]

I can recommend Spybot, free (donations if you feel inclined) and works well with regular updates downloadable direct from their site.

 

[Goober]

Originally posted by GrandMasta Nick
I used to have kazaa and Imesh on my computer but removed them. Now i have millions of popups and can no longer us IE, I had to seek refuge in Netscape. Does anyone know haw to get this spy/adware of my system?

Ohh, you mean Internet Exploder? Ya, I had to switch to Mozilla, and have never looked back *ah, the wonders of NO POP-UPS!!!*