Kazaa v.s........

[trisha]

I remember a while ago there was a discussion on which is better, Kazaa v.s. something else. I don't remeber what the other one was and I can't find it. Could some help?

[GK Punk]

was it mIRC?

[Reznorite420]

Just as long as I don't use LimeWire, I'm fine and dandy.

[Mr. Snackpants]

I think she means a program like kazaa, to download music, maybe? I think I know what it is, it starts with a "b"...........

[Kid Icarus]

Bearshare? I thought that was dead... or maybe I hoped it was dead.

mIRC all the way... if you know the commands :P .

[trisha]

i mean for music

[Karpo_007]

I woudln't use kazaa for anything, full of fakes, addware and you can get viruses trough it easily. Even Kazaa lite doesn't fix that. For MP3 I would suggest winmx, haven't got single virus from it.

[Fraggle]

was it alittle thing called MORPHEUS thats good for music you can download it for free at www.download.com

[HorseTechie]

Yeah... I still use Kazaa, or more like, my husband does. And it does pick up a crapload of sphitware we have to clean out time to time... :P

My friend swears my iMesh, but she uses the school's PCs to download. So she doesn't have to worry about virii nasties. (man, this shareware business is starting to sound like the Matrix)

I only use Mirc for episodes though.

[Reznorite420]

I woudln't use kazaa for anything, full of fakes, addware and you can get viruses trough it easily. Even Kazaa lite doesn't fix that.Funny; I haven't gotten any problems with adware and viruses with KLite...yet.

As far as "fake" files go, I think that's a risk with EVERY P2P app., not just Kazaa.

[Peanut]

I don't use any of it. It's not right.............I'm a terrible liar.

[GK Punk]

I woudln't use kazaa for anything, full of fakes, addware and you can get viruses trough it easily. Even Kazaa lite doesn't fix that.Funny; I haven't gotten any problems with adware and viruses with KLite...yet.

As far as "fake" files go, I think that's a risk with EVERY P2P app., not just Kazaa.

Im with Rez, I've used K-Lite for along time now and have had no problems, not even fake files (But the no fake files thing is pure luck)
K-Lite has no Spy/ad-ware built in (I installed in then ran a program to look for Spyware and adware, and nothing was found) And it has built in Filters to help avoid Viruses. (You should still Viri scan all Zips, and Exe files just to be sure however)

[Karpo_007]

Add ware and most of the viruses are undetectable without proper software. Most of the time you might not even know you have a virus. The most popular that comes from Kazaa is opas serv32 worm. On a home computer these can't do much damage, but in aschool or work network they can.

Also kazaa can corrupt video files, and is full of fakes. You haven't got any? The you are lukcy. There is no real reason for me to use kazaa, IRC is better in every way. Of course it's too complicated to some, but if you use kazaa You should have a good antivirus software and addware remover.

[GK Punk]

Add ware and most of the viruses are undetectable without proper software. Most of the time you might not even know you have a virus. The most popular that comes from Kazaa is opas serv32 worm. On a home computer these can't do much damage, but in aschool or work network they can.

Also kazaa can corrupt video files, and is full of fakes. You haven't got any? The you are lukcy. There is no real reason for me to use kazaa, IRC is better in every way. Of course it's too complicated to some, but if you use kazaa You should have a good antivirus software and addware remover.

Too be honest, I recomend both. I use K-Lite for MP3s and mIRC for Cartoons...

[Karpo_007]

For MP3 I have found winmx to be very reliable.

[RomStom]

The only decent thing about kazaa is the number of people that use it. Morpheous is a joke nowadays, winmx is ok, it has a large selection of songs/vidoes which you won't find on kazaa, but can be really slow at times.
IRC is the only wayto go for anything rare or popular, whatever your interests someone will be sharing it.

There are much better alternative p2p like filetopia, direct connect etc. They have problems too though, you either have to share a number of GB or there aren't enough users.

It's a shame kazaa/iMesh etc are the first ones people hear about, otherwise the whole p2p community would look a lot better.

[Karpo_007]

True words.

[CookSux]

Morpheus ran off the same servers as Kazaa back in the day. Besides, K-Lite is good enough for me, even though I get most my stuff from mIRC.

[Jephael]

I used to love using Morpheus when I first got my new computer last year. But it only worked for a few months and then it started acting funny.

[Pepzi]

soulseek used to be excellent for mp3s... but i dunnow what happen to it...