Below is a document being passed around on campus.... looks like KAZAA has few more suprises for us...
<< What Is Hidden Inside the Kazaa Software??
Have you installed Kazaa software (a peer-to-peer application program for sharing files over the Internet) on your computer? If so, you may have installed more than you bargained for!
Brilliant Digital Entertainment, a digital advertising technology company in California, has been ?packaging? an added feature with Kazaa downloads since early this year. This unseen add-on will enable Brilliant to basically use your computer?s unused processing power to help with other companies? complicated computing tasks. Basically, it is a way for others who don?t live here to use the bandwidth that the University has available?and it becomes free to them!
The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in early May. Brilliant Digital CEO Kevin Bermeister says computers or Internet connections won't be used without their owners' permission. But the company will nevertheless have access to millions of computers at once, almost as easily as turning on a light switch. "Everybody will get turned on in more or less a simultaneous fashion," Bermeister said. "This will be an opt-in program...We're trying to create a secure network based on end-user relationships." But what will this ?secure network? do to the SLU network? What does this mean to you, as a user of the University?s network?
It means that if you give permission for this to happen on your machine, then you are authorizing use of a resource that you do not own?the University?s bandwidth?for commercial use. This is a violation of University policy. Additionally, this type of use outside our community could cause our Internet connection to be brought to its knees?with all the available bandwidth suddenly taken by users and superusers outside the SLU community.
To see if you have the Brilliant software on your machine, in the Windows Control Panel, select an option called "Add/Remove Programs." If one of the options is "b3d Projector" you have the add-on software. If you are an experienced technical user, you may visit
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-875274.html for directions to remove the software. Otherwise, please call the ITS Support Center at 977-4000 for assistance. CAUTION: if you are not sure about removing the software, do NOT try to do so without ITS assistance, as you may remove needed files for your computer?s operation!
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<< What Is Hidden Inside the Kazaa Software??
Have you installed Kazaa software (a peer-to-peer application program for sharing files over the Internet) on your computer? If so, you may have installed more than you bargained for!
Brilliant Digital Entertainment, a digital advertising technology company in California, has been ?packaging? an added feature with Kazaa downloads since early this year. This unseen add-on will enable Brilliant to basically use your computer?s unused processing power to help with other companies? complicated computing tasks. Basically, it is a way for others who don?t live here to use the bandwidth that the University has available?and it becomes free to them!
The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in early May. Brilliant Digital CEO Kevin Bermeister says computers or Internet connections won't be used without their owners' permission. But the company will nevertheless have access to millions of computers at once, almost as easily as turning on a light switch. "Everybody will get turned on in more or less a simultaneous fashion," Bermeister said. "This will be an opt-in program...We're trying to create a secure network based on end-user relationships." But what will this ?secure network? do to the SLU network? What does this mean to you, as a user of the University?s network?
It means that if you give permission for this to happen on your machine, then you are authorizing use of a resource that you do not own?the University?s bandwidth?for commercial use. This is a violation of University policy. Additionally, this type of use outside our community could cause our Internet connection to be brought to its knees?with all the available bandwidth suddenly taken by users and superusers outside the SLU community.
To see if you have the Brilliant software on your machine, in the Windows Control Panel, select an option called "Add/Remove Programs." If one of the options is "b3d Projector" you have the add-on software. If you are an experienced technical user, you may visit
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-875274.html for directions to remove the software. Otherwise, please call the ITS Support Center at 977-4000 for assistance. CAUTION: if you are not sure about removing the software, do NOT try to do so without ITS assistance, as you may remove needed files for your computer?s operation!
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