This wonderful little program came into being shortly after the demise of Napster. Once again, all of us who enjoy listening to music and searching for hard to find songs of artists that are either popular or obscure, will love this program. You can enter a word or two of a song title and it will return a large list of other users who have the same or similar song on their computer. You can also search for photographs, videos and programs. This is where some caution comes in to play. If a user wishes, they can search for adult oriented material. Kazaa has built in filters to allow parents to set limits on the adult content. It is also highly recommended to have an Anti-Virus program like Norton Anti-Virus 2003 installed to ensure total protection against virus infection. Several current viruses are spread through the Kazaa file sharing system. You can also search for programs that other users have made available for sharing. This is not exactly legal especially if the programs are licensed for sale and some one has "hacked" it so that it is free to install. When you install this program, have a look in your add and remove programs in your control panel. You may see some items that you have not installed. These "tag a longs" are spyware that may have come in with Kazaa. Some to watch for are Gator, Precision Time, WebHancer, Cydoor, etc.. Simply uninstall the programs. Or if you want you can download kazaalite from www.kazalite.com this has no spyware in it.

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