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

Alex Olivas olivasa at colorado.edu
Sat Jan 3 01:46:57 UTC 2004


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?
thanks,
alex.






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