Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa

[StattlichPassat]

Sorry if this is a repost... kind of a cool idea if you read the article, but... well, you decide.

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html

 

[Martin]

*sigh*


Some people simply don't WANT to link.

 

[crypticlogin]

I don't know what's worse: the trojan or the news release on April 1st. It's still AF's on the west coast and I'm thinking a lot of people are going to be dismissing the news as another prank. But this is definitely something to take note if you're a Kazaa user.

 

[gopunk]

i'd sure be pissed off if this were happening on my computer... the nerve...

 

[Fausto]

Anyone figured out if this is an Apr 1 joke or not? Seems like they're risking losing pretty much all of their users by semi-hiding this thing. One more reason I don't use Kazaa, I guess.

Fausto

 

[Smacksmackums]

Anyone? More info? This sounds sucky.

 

[Krugger]

this is not a joke, the article is quite detailed.
Krugger
PS this is why i don't use this program or morpheus. ahh the good ol' days of napster.

 

[Balt]

Ugh... I kind of doubt the guy who did Kazaa Lite removed this (he probably didn't know about it).

 

[Angrymarshmello]

nm

 

[rahvin]

<< People actually believe this? >>



Yes people generally believe financial documents submitted to the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commision, charged with the protection of the stock market) because lieing in those documents is a sure and efficient way to end up in jail. In additional other intelligent people read the EULA they clicked and agreed to when they installed KAZZA that specifically mentions BDE's (Brilliant Digital) right to use all your free space and processor cycles for whatever they desire.

Of course that's what intelligent people do, what did you do?

 

[Martin]

My only objection is that I can't uninstall BDE (I insalled kazaa before I knew about it)

It won't even let me delete the folder it was installed in!


Oh well, I'll just do it form the command line one of these days....

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

YOU FOOLS HAVE BEEN HACKED!!! MWAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

<-----uses audiogalaxy and doesnt get trojans/ad/spyware thank you.

 

[Smacksmackums]

So wait, you can't even uninstall it or delete it even when you unistall kazaa? What garbage. This sounds so stupid, I want to kill the people who came up with pop ups and embedded spyware and all that crap. The internet blows.

I have KazaaLite and had Morpheus before that. Where do I look to see if I have this junk and how can I get rid of it?

 

[ViperMagic]

<< The internet blows. >>



Blasphmey!

 

[GTaudiophile]

I have this damned sh!t on my machine too! It's in C:\WINNT\BDE and C:\WINNT\system32!

Edit: Does running "bdeclean" uninstall the thing?

 

[bozack]

Damn this crap is all over my system too...I manually deleted most of the files that I could find...someone has to have a clean util that gets this crap out.

Oh well, worst case scenerio is a reformat.

 

[Gujski]

I was wondering what that b3s was in my add/remove programs...but it wont let me uninstall it!!??

I am going to download the latest AD-Aware and see if that hoses it. We need to find a solution for this folks...

 

[GTaudiophile]

Adaware (I have v5.62) doesn't do jack with it. I ran "bdeclean" and that got rid of everything in C:\WINNT\BDE, but I still have a bunch of .dlls in C:\WINNT\system32 that are related I think.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Ad-Aware 5.67 doesn't do it either :| I thought this was fake too :| I just ran BDEclean....said it cleaned everything off but I still see a couple bde(blah).dll's in my SYSTEM directory

 

[Smacksmackums]

I did a search for BDE*.* and also just plain old BDE. It found nothing with BDE*.* and only three things with BDE, and one was a wav and the other two were dated a long time ago so I'm guessing that they weren't part of any spyware thing.

I'm running Windows ME, and also I have KazaaLite. Anyway, if anyone has any tips or solutions let me know.

 

[Martin]

anybody got a working link to bdeclean?

google (*gasp*) didnt find anything useful

 

[Angrymarshmello]

MTM - there should be a link in your WINDOWS folder - called BDE - and there should be a file called bdeclean.exe inside

 

[Angrymarshmello]

<<

<< People actually believe this? >>



Yes people generally believe financial documents submitted to the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commision, charged with the protection of the stock market) because lieing in those documents is a sure and efficient way to end up in jail. In additional other intelligent people read the EULA they clicked and agreed to when they installed KAZZA that specifically mentions BDE's (Brilliant Digital) right to use all your free space and processor cycles for whatever they desire.

Of course that's what intelligent people do, what did you do? >>



Kazaa Lite doesn't have this EULA agreement. And it was all on CNET's site - thought it was just one big joke

 

[Gujski]

Ad Aware 5.7 doesn't do anything either. was able to uninstall from add/remove programs. Looks like it just runs the BDE clean. I then deleted the BDE folder from c:\windows but doing a search shows a lot of junk still in windows\system. I am half tempted to just delete all of it.

 

[Martin]

<< MTM - there should be a link in your WINDOWS folder - called BDE - and there should be a file called bdeclean.exe inside >>



The scary thing is, when I goto add/remove, it says close all windows and proceed, but it can't unisntall it.

I downloaded BDECLEAN.exe and ran it, but its the same thing.

When I try to browse to that folder, it gives me access denied (even though I am an administrator). When I goto DOS (recovery console) and try to delte, it STILL gives me access denied.

Basicly, there is no way to remove or delete it.