Turning off kazaa (used to be: file sharing for linux)
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Sat Jan 3 01:55:23 UTC 2004
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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