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JackSpratts · 05-05-02, 09:14 PM

Tom Spring, PCWorld.com
Millions find their PCs' bandwidth and hard disk space siphoned for mysterious but worthy-sounding scientific projects, just because they downloaded the client for a music and file-swapping program. But when Altnet's seeded software is awakened some time in May--the company won't say exactly when--even more users may be caught by surprise. On the chosen day, the slumbering software will be roused the next time the user connects to the Kazaa network. That activates the controversial software, a program called SecureInstall. "Consumers have nothing to fear," says Brilliant Digital's Bermeister. Here's what he says will happen next.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,98344,00.asp

- js.

05-05-02, 09:14 PM	#1
JackSpratts Join Date: May 2001 Location: New England Posts: 10,023	KaZaAs' BDE/Altnet Close To Turn-On? Tom Spring, PCWorld.com Millions find their PCs' bandwidth and hard disk space siphoned for mysterious but worthy-sounding scientific projects, just because they downloaded the client for a music and file-swapping program. But when Altnet's seeded software is awakened some time in May--the company won't say exactly when--even more users may be caught by surprise. On the chosen day, the slumbering software will be roused the next time the user connects to the Kazaa network. That activates the controversial software, a program called SecureInstall. "Consumers have nothing to fear," says Brilliant Digital's Bermeister. Here's what he says will happen next. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,98344,00.asp - js.