File Sharing software...or spyware

[Spec]

As we all know file sharing software are found anywhere on the net, may it be Imesh, Kazaa or Xdcc downloads with Mirc. But what comes to my mind is which is the best for your comp.

Imesh is probably the fastest one outthere to download files (get 250kps often) but doesn`t have half as much file choice as kazaa has. Plus Imesh installs GAIN on your comp which gives you pop-up after pop-up which pop-up killer cant block.
Kazaa (exept for Kazaa lite) has its own share of pop-up generators and is considerably slow when downloading files (never saw more than 90kps) and I've heard that it installs some spywares for marketing purposes.
Mirc is the fastest way to download files (got 450 kps) but man is it long to find what your looking for and when you find it you'll probably be queued for 2-3 hours.
Limewire, Bearshare and all those other suck so much ass it's not even worth taking them into consideration.

In conclusion I pick kazaa lite. Almost unlimited file choice, slow but fast to start downloads and NO ADDWARE!!!! maybe I have a spyware on my comp by kazaa that I didn`t find but who cares! Atleast I dont get the freakin PC anywhere add every 5 mins.

What do you think?

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[ColdWizard]

none of the above

[FrustratedPoet]

Kazaa lite, for the same reasons as you.

[August Borms]

I use
Emule (no spyware at all) for divx and iso's
DietKazaa for mp3's/videoclips and small games

[Dauphin]

I wonder how long this thread will last.

[Paul Hanson]

Kazaa Lite, because it isn't blocked by my uni's proxy servers.

[General Ludd]

What a sad list.

[Q Classic]

since all of those are blocked ('cept mirc) by the university network, i use soulseek instead.

kinda difficult to find asian music on it, but hey.

[Bereta_Eder]

winmx since the demise of audiogalaxy (and napster before) seems to run ok

[Spiffor]

WinMX is the most serious P2P software I've ever seen. Much choice, tolerable speed, and above all no cons : no spyware, no adware, no automatic-launching-at-startup-without-you-knowing, none of this.
Just a simple, straight to the point client. It uses decentralized servers, so the company developing the software isn't desperate for money, and doesn't use this kind of crap.

[Asher]

The most serious P2P software I've ever seen would be the eDonkey/Overnet network.

There's two good clients for it right now: eMule is great, but it's only for the eDonkey 2000 network.
eDonkey2000 is pretty good, but it simultaneously covers Overnet and eDonkey networks.

All of the other companies should take a page from eDonkey's book: Force people to upload segments of files they're downloading, use hash values to keep track of files incase of people renaming them, allow links to be taken from websites that automatically add files to your download queue by hash value...

[Dis]

kazaa lite.

watch out for those virus' in that porn though. My friend got one just the other day.

Yeah I know friend means me. but it really was my friend.

I got hit from a porn virus late last years from kazaa (I think)

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Dissident
kazaa lite.

watch out for those virus' in that porn though. My friend got one just the other day.

Yeah I know friend means me. but it really was my friend.

I got hit from a porn virus late last years from kazaa (I think)

Catching virii from porn? The risks should be outlined in sex ed classes.

[Q Classic]

somebody's forgetting to use protection...

[Spec]

I find WinMx to be slow and dull. I wish Kazaa lite would have Imesh's speed.

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