KL and viruses

[glamdrac]

I've recently downloaded and installed the latest version of Kazaa Lite and my Norton Antivirus has been reporting viruses once every few hours. It claims that it can not fix the virus, but when I go to find the virus manually, it is not there. This is not really a problem. It just seem that Norton is giving false alerts. Interesting, eh?

[mysticgohan17]

OMFG you download excutable files from kazaa, you should be flamed. i cant help you because i know better than to use that virus infected P2P.

[gmatov]

I DON'T think Norton AV is giving you false alerts. I had KaZaa a couple years ago and quickly uninstalled when I learned that they were incorporating a reporting program, B3D, I think. It IS the most virus ridden of all the P2Ps, but it is also the biggest, so it's natural.
Many (probably I should say some) of the virus programs write themselves directly to the Registry,so I don't think Norton can clean them, or kill them. That's why they write specific "killer" programs for some virii, like the klez. I have been getting it with attachments to e-mails. Norton detects them, asks if I want to delete them, replies that it can't, do I want to quarantine, and IS able to do that.
There IS supposed to be a specific KaZaa virus checker, found on a Max PC disk. I have it, but, again, since I don't use it, don't know how good it is. I'll look it up(lotsa disks) and if I find it, if you want it, I'll either post it to you or give you a link.
My advice. Get someone to get the program for you. I honestly don't know where to get some of the stuff some friends DL for me. And, even then, if they burn me a disk, I'll find a virus or 2 on the CD.

[devinemi83]

Kazaa and all other filesharing/chatting networks are full of ******** who get off on sending out a virus. As a programmer I dont know quite why people do it but they do. As a rule I WONT download EXE, DOC, or anything that is executable or has macros in it for that reason. I downloaded ONE program and scanned it hard to make sure it was clean. But ever since then I have had friends tell me that they always run into bad stuff.


Heres some rules...

If the file claims to be a large commercial program it WONT be only 45 KB in size.


Almost all of those "Key generators" or "Crack" programs are a virus.


Any hacking tool, is exactly that, only YOU are the one that will be hacked.

The networks have never been worse than they are now. About a year ago you ran into alot fewer bad shit than you do now. Almost all the stuff you run into now is virus infected.

[gmatov]

Divine ranger,
As a rule, I won't dl ANYTHING that does not come from the originating site, meaning the home page of a program originator. There are a few sites whose dls I trust, PCWorld, tucows, such as those, but to dl anything you see is foolish. Do you subscribe to, or do you buy or follow 2600? I would assume you do, in defense, if nothing else.

[devinemi83]

I dont really download software. I went there looking for VB6 enterprise to practice on all the other software I have I have bought legally. Just I couldnt afford 1800.00 LOL


I dont read 2600 at all. Is it good?

[gmatov]

Devine,
Some of it is, more of it isn't. Some of their arguments for Electronic Freedom, ala eff.org, make sense, but for someone to tell you how to hack into a Photo Printing kiosk in Kmart is just sily, to me. Or a cash register system. I think it has a lot of "script kiddies" in its letters columns. Looka me, I found this virus, and I can take down the Internet. Ain't I good?
The only idea I was intrigued by was to capture say 8 hours of the satellite signal, without the reciever, and then feeding it back from your HDD thru the reciever to TV. Effectively recording all the shows you wanted to tape in that time period, and allowing you to view and record whichever you want. NOT attempting to steal the signal, as you would not have the filters or whatever allows a legitimately subscribed to show to appear on your screen. Simply time shifting the whole lineup at one time.
Feasible or not, it is intriguing.
Moot point now, as I went back to cable, and with 2 VCRs can program to tape as many shows as are not running concurrently till the tapes are filled.
I'm not a programmer. Mathematically too challenging, algorithms and all that stuff, but it looks as though you don't use that anymore, with VB and C++ and the like, correct?

[devinemi83]

Me, I just use VB6, and I am adapting to VB.net.



I dont hang out at to many "tech sites" because they always tend to get the script kiddie fools who like you said are constantly trying to figure out how to blow up the digital world when they barely have the knowledge to turn their monitors on. LOL Also whats great fun is at programmer message boards when you get the "can someone build me a virus, its for school.....really". They are told nicely( and sometimes not so nicely) that real programmers work on building things not breaking things.