I run Kazaa and other adware in a VMWare virtual machine in order to keep my real machine from dying unconveniently. Besides malware the legit adware is still so buggy as to totally wreck your OS. Of course, VMWare is an expensive solution... if you pay for it, that is. It is also expensive in system resources. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Krum" <frobnitz@msn.com> To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:33 PM Subject: KaZaA > I'm concerned about all the applications which utilize ie browser controls. > There are a lot of adware programs with little ads. Some of these ads have > activex, java, flash, js. Any one of these capabilities in the wrong zone > could be dangerous. > > My attention was first drawn to this when I noticed KaZaA launching popups > sourced from the local hard disk. Surely these ads are running in the local > zone. To use software that does this I have to trust them to audit the ads > given to them? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Broadband? Dial-up? Get reliable MSN Internet Access. > http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp >
