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Yo people,

I need to tell you the story of 'aM Inspire the Legend', it goes a bit like this ...

I had a lag problem on Halo MP, so i told aM Inspire about it on Xfire and he said in a casual mood "Lay it on me". I told him the problem, it turned out to be some bad hijacking crap from over gamespy, or what i previously had ' Bearshare ' (an illegal dowloading software thingy like Kazza) it was my bro's, but then he deleted it. He told me to dowload this thing that scans your computer and gets rid of the crap. And it worked, Halo MP is now running smoothly.

> If you have anything like Kazza, delete it now for the sake of Halo!

Thankyou aM Inspire

Spartan 012.

  • 09.19.2005 10:23 AM PDT
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For those who don't like to read long posts: Peer-to-peer/file-sharing is just asking to get infected with spyware. I don't think most people use file-sharing legally either.

  • 09.19.2005 4:09 PM PDT
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Would it still cause problems even if its not running i mean how could it affect you that bad if its not running. PLus adware se takes out all that stuff doesnt it?

  • 09.20.2005 1:44 PM PDT
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this is why people should have ad-aware se so they dont have spyware just update every two weeks and scan every week. youll be fine. and btw any kind of file sharing is now illegal the supreme court declared it a few eeks ago

  • 09.20.2005 6:03 PM PDT
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first off kazaa is old and decrepit there are newer and better ways to "share information" but i will not talk about them here as i don't want YOU to go downlaoding stuff illegally

and secondly old peer to peer programs are just easy ways for hackers to slip trojans and such into your computer. I could go on about how to tell the difference between a virus and the real thing but that is WAY off topic of The Maw and thusly I won't

and finally, slap your brother for me. the only thing people need on their computers is games! and instant messengers!! none of this kazaa crap

  • 09.21.2005 6:57 AM PDT
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Posted by: vectorracer
Would it still cause problems even if its not running i mean how could it affect you that bad if its not running. PLus adware se takes out all that stuff doesnt it?

If you're not going to run it, why have it in the first place? Any anti-spyware software only detects and removes spyware that has already been reported and coded in the software's "definition list". Everyone is -blam!- when new spyware comes out.

  • 09.21.2005 8:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mr B
Peer to peer isnt illegal. Limewire is the new kazaa and perfectly legal. Its only illegal if you download copyrighted stuff to which you have no ownership of.

For example, I often download music tracks of what I already own, cept at a higher bitrate. Legal. Got a scratched cd that doesnt work? Perfectly legal to download it.


Mr B, while I believe you are correct for the UK (I assume that's where you are) and Canada (that's where I am), I think the Americans are in more of a gray area with respect to file-sharing. I know this is totally off-topic, but here is an article on CNET about the music side of this, if anyone is interested:

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10165_7-5798512-1.html?tag=txt

God Save The Queen!

  • 09.21.2005 11:55 AM PDT
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and btw any kind of file sharing is now illegal the supreme court declared it a few eeks ago

Not true. There are companies using bit torrent to dowload their software to people. Linspire is an excellent example, recently using bit torrent and fileshare technology in an effort to promote Linspire 5, an upgrade of their OS.

It is illegal to download copyrighted material without consent now. it wasn't always so. the original wording of the file sharing law made it illegal for people to upload documents, or share them, to other people. It was not illegal to download these files. Example: you download a copy of i-robot using P2P fikesharing, but you move the file to a non-shared folder or burn it to disc and then delete it from the drive completely. That was legal under the old system because you didn't turn around and "share" the file you just recieved with others.

Now it's not. But I doubt this is the last we've heard on the P2P front. as more companies use the technology to legitimatly distribute their goods, it's another slap in the face of high end retail and marketing. The ads are right: filesharing, in any form hurts these businesses. it gives people another choice, and it gives smaller companies a power on par with the big guys when it comes to marketting. In a nutshell: why sign away all your rights to a record company when you can massdistribute your CD on the web? Why buy several thousand dollars worth of bandwidth for your game site or hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to get it on the shelves at EB games when you can just sell people a 10K CD text key and send them to bit torrent to get the actual program?

BTW: I use filesharing on one of my PCs. It's never damaged my computer. For most Linux apps, it's the best way to find them...and fan sub anime; don't forget fansubs...

But I don't recommend Kazaa, or anything even closly related(like Bearshare). Kazaa is a spyware factory, and not well maintained.

How is it that your filesharing adversly affected the running of Halo? if the program was running, then Kazaa would have been eating bandwidth right and left. but if the app is down, it shouldn't be a problem.

[Edited on 9/21/2005]

  • 09.21.2005 7:38 PM PDT