Comments on: Urgent Warning for Shareaza Users - Shareaza.com Hijacked

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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:16:39 +0000

[...] audacious Shareaza fiasco that saw their domain rudely hijacked and the popular file sharing client replaced with a fake [...]

By: hungrier

hungrier — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:14:50 +0000

Thanks for the warning Bro! I to was one click away- I downloaded it but saved it to to a folder but found your post before I opened it. Thanks again

By: Basic

Basic — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:09:34 +0000

I was also just one click away - I’ve downloaded 4 but not installed it as it looked a little off-key for some reason. As above, thank god I bothered to google

Thanks for the warning!

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:54:00 +0000

I found this link on the CMS Made Simple Forum regarding Shareaza! Please give it a look:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php?topic=20984.msg102048

By: Dunc

Dunc — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:39:18 +0000

Thanks for the heads up…it automatically downloaded via my legitimate version of shareaza, but i didnt install. I dont use shareaza much so wasnt aware of anything untoward.. for some reason i looked shareaza up on wikipedia and found that it had been hijacked. Pretty bad really…shame on them.
I’m just glad I found this site before i installed it..

Cheers

By: John

John — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:09:48 +0000

Thanks for the warning!! I got suspicious since there was absolutely no information about what was new in v.4 on their website, so I really appreciate your information. Glad I didn’t download it.

By: Biker

Biker — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:12:35 +0000

DeTard wrote:
I made an account and got onto it.
I hope you didnt give them a CC number.

On another note, I went to unsubscribe from communications using the URL in the account creation email.
No respectable company will require you to have activeX for an unsubscribe.
This prog is full of weird things, you need to do some research and find out what they are and uninstall them IMHO

By: DeTard

DeTard — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:13:26 +0000

Unfortunately I installed this version 4. I made an account and got onto it. I didn’t download or search for ANYTHING, but still, I feel I was violated, ya know? I trusted this really was a new version (though I was a bit boggled with the skipping of version 3). And then I saw the Discordia, LTD copyright information at the bottom and I knew there was something wrong here.

On another note, I went to unsubscribe from communications using the URL in the account creation email. I was in Firefox though and I got the notice that they couldn’t continue with unsubscribing me because I didn’t have ActiveX enabled. Wow. Who knows what I would have had installed in my browser if I was using IE.

By: Puff

Puff — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:18:49 +0000

Thanks ever so much for the heads up. Like Mitch, I too believed something fishy to be going on and I was subsequently fortunate enough to read your notice.
Keep up the good work and please, everyone, spread the word! We’re not ready to lose Shareaza just yet!!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:05:38 +0000

Thanks Buddy!

I was one click away from installing it too…thank god I noticed something odd and decided to look around first!