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Welcome to the Viruswarning forums. All your original content has been ported to the new forums as well as new content and additional opportunities to interact with the authors of Viruswarn.com. You can always access old content at www.leedrake.com/forum . You may find some formatting was lost in the conversion and the older versions of the posts to be more readable....
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| 05/27/2003 8:40 PM |
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| What is it?
Kazaa was again in the news today - according to a story in ZD-Net every version of Kazaa out there today has a serious network vulnerability that could allow a worm or hacker to execute code of their choice on your machine. Kazaa, rather than immediately addressing the vulnerability at first attempted to downlplay it. There is no announcement on their website about it, and no official patch has yet been issued to protect you from the vulnerability. There is however, a patch available to Kazaa users through the Kazaa interface itself. If you absolutely must use Kazaa I strongly recommend you get this patch - before a virus or worm gets you.
What should you do?
I'd strongly recommend that anyone using Kazaa remove it. Kazaa is easy to uninstall - just go to add/remove programs and uninstall it. If you absolutely must use it - don't use it from work or at work - put it on a separate home machine and be darn sure you have aggressive real-time file scanning turned on.
If you wish to keep Kazaa on your system, be sure to download and install the patch. Since I do not have the software on my system, and there's no instructions on their website you'll have to work through that one on your own.
If you must use Kazaa, be sure that the system you use it on is file scanned DAILY (in addition to real-time scanning), at least in your download directory files in order to avoid running into problems with virused files slipping past the door as download files. Be sure to scan ALL EXTENSIONS in the shared or download directories - not just executable extensions.
Keep good, up to date virus signatures, and be sure your virus software is updating.
Run a program such as Zone-Alarm to prevent programs from running on your machine and accessing the internet without your knowledge
For more information:
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-1010022.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
This concludes this viruswarning notice dated 5/27/2003.
Lee Drake
Aztek Computer Solutions, Inc.
39 N. Goodman St.
Rochester, NY 14607
585-242-2060
For past archives of viruswarning files see:
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Lee Drake
Aztek Computer Solutions, Inc.
39 N. Goodman St.
Rochester, NY 14607
the human side of computing
Email: ldrake@azcomputer.net
Web: www.azcomputer.net Office Phone: 585-242-2060
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