On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alex Olivas wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > gm wrote: > > > > The authors of kazaa should be taken out and beaten senseless. Agreed!! > i was told you can turn off the port that kazaa uses. i share internet > access with roommates. i use linux Kazza uses whatever port it can get access through. > 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? I do not have specifics but I can tell you it is very hard to block. There have been numerous threads on the netfilter list discussing this. I would suggest you look at the netfilter list archives and then maybe ask questions there. I think you are more likely to get better answers to your question there. HTH, ...............Tom
