Just be aware that, in order to stop pop up ads, Kazaa Light installs its own HOSTS file into %Windir%. This has the negative affect of not allowing you to view several legitimate web sites, including Yahoo Maps, since the HOSTS file redirects the URL to your loopback adapter. ------ Kazaa lite doesnt have ads or spyware. http://www.kazaalite.com/ PLUS it works great with Wine (http://www.winehq.com/) :) On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:53:05AM -0700, David Krum wrote: > To follow up my mid Oct post: > > KaZaA is still launching ads in the local zone. KaZaA was contacted 6 > Jan 03 via their bug report page. > > "Pop-up ads are being spawned from the local hard disk. This puts > them in the local zone. Scripts running in this zone can be harmful." > > I am now awaiting their response. > > To immunize KaZaA from this defect I have removed the permissions from > the directory it launches ads from. This has a nice side effect of > not showing ads. The directory to secure is: %WinDir%\AdCache > > David > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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