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

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I have written a quick and dirty guide here:

http://www.cleanstick.org/jon/oldphotosite/kazaa/

Let me know how it goes for you.

--Jon

Rick Stevens wrote:
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.
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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?


kazaa can use many different ports...that's what's so damned difficult
with it.

Here's some articles about it:

http://www.lowth.com/p2pwall/
http://www.pcquest.com/content/topstories/secure/103111007.asp

Google searches with "kazaa +firewall" will get more data.
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