Kazaa

tridens · 30-12-2003, 22:26

Can any one recommend a good softwear to download music of the internet
heard about kazaa any comments good or bad
thanks

Sociable · 30-12-2003, 22:32

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Originally Posted by tridens

Can any one recommend a good softwear to download music of the internet
heard about kazaa any comments good or bad
thanks

Avoid kazaa like the plague unless you have full Anti-virus, Firewalls up the kazoo, and can fit at least two extra strength condoms to your modem.

WinMX suffers the same but perhaps not quite as bad but watch out for hoax and wrongly named files too.

trentsteel · 30-12-2003, 22:39

Kazaa Lite is good if you can still find it, no spyware, ads etc.
I agree if getting software, mostly it is in zip files and some, only some that I have encountered, have viruses.
Saying that, I got MS Office XP and WinXP from there:p

Xaccers · 30-12-2003, 22:53

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Originally Posted by trentsteel

Kazaa Lite is good if you can still find it, no spyware, ads etc.
I agree if getting software, mostly it is in zip files and some, only some that I have encountered, have viruses.
Saying that, I got MS Office XP and WinXP from there:p

*runs off to tell Mr Gates and claim the bounty

luftys · 31-12-2003, 00:45

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Originally Posted by tridens

Can any one recommend a good softwear to download music of the internet
heard about kazaa any comments good or bad
thanks

I use Ares,the only prop is they are not a lot of people on it yet
You can find it at "softgap.com"

{FU}Fubar · 31-12-2003, 12:09

i recommend emule

deadite66 · 31-12-2003, 12:18

soulseek is good

kronas · 31-12-2003, 12:21

winmx is also a good program

www.winmx.com

deadite66 · 31-12-2003, 12:40

huge queues though

kronas · 31-12-2003, 12:44

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Originally Posted by deadite66

huge queues though

i never have a problem, downloads are usally instant or a few people ahead of me which does not take long to clear

if a queue is longer i wait for a bit and it starts downloading if you search for better sources you can get your stuff quick on there

Bifta · 31-12-2003, 12:45

I've found Shareaza to be really good for downloading MP3's

tridens · 31-12-2003, 12:59

Hi ive found a site which has top 10 download programs may be usefull

http://www.olenium.de/

Dave Stones · 31-12-2003, 13:02

BitTorrent and IRC do me fine...

Sociable · 31-12-2003, 13:04

Main thing to watch on all these download programs is they are nearly always full of spyware stuff like gator etc.

This will inevitably cause slugish performance on the PC after a short while so you will need to run adaware or similar progs to clean the system even more than usual.

ic14 · 31-12-2003, 14:31

Limewires pretty good, and it doesnt seem to have any spyware.