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Kazaa & Ad-aware

Postby Geekgirl » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:40 pm

I installed Ad-aware on my sons pc,(Windows 2000)and it must have corrupted his Kazaa Media Desktop, when he clicks on it, it gives an error. It worked before I scanned and now it don't so Im sure thats the problem.
Now I personally don't use Kazaa and really hate him using it because of the crap you can get in there but I want to know is if I could of prevented Ad-aware from doing this in the first place.
Can someone explain how to allow some things to be left alone or does it not give you this option?

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Postby brad » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:37 am

Have Him uninstall Kazaa and install Kazaa Lite... No Spyware.
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Postby liljim » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:42 am

The Older kazaa use to use Cydoor as adware,dont know what they use now but theres a adware free version that you would be much better off with.Go and get kazaa lite 2.4.3.(uninstall you O.G. version first)


For ad-aware,once you have scanned you can right click on the files and choose to ignore the ones you want.
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Kazaa is dead

Postby icecube » Tue Jun 15, 2004 1:58 am

remove the Kazaa--download Limewire---Kazaa wants money to download. Plus if you dl something from anyone on kazaa, you have to get a security patch to use it--thats where the subscription fee enters.

You also have to check your downloads on Limewire for Kazaa files, they won't open without the "security patch"

There is also emule--slow but it has everything
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Postby Geekgirl » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:16 am

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Postby liljim » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:35 pm

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Postby Herm862001 » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:51 pm

kazaa sucks too many viruses!
downloand WIN MX http://winmx.com/
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Postby Geekgirl » Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:30 pm

Obviously no one knows how to answer my question about Ad-aware but hey everyone knows what music file sharing program I should use :wink:

I suppose I will have to take some time and do some research on Ad-aware and play around with it,.... hmmmm I like to play around with things that are a challenge. Guess this is right up my alley....
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Your fix

Postby icecube » Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:50 am

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Postby Borogorn » Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:18 pm

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Postby lilpinkflower » Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:35 pm

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Clovebud No.7, Max Factor Hypersmooth, L'Oreal Lash Architect, The Body Shop Poudre Libre, 17 Nude blusher and hair by Uppercutz.


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Postby Geekgirl » Tue Jun 22, 2004 3:47 pm

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Postby liljim » Tue Jun 22, 2004 4:22 pm

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