An Associated Press reporter picks up the Kazaa story I wrote about last week. For the most part, the details in the short AP story are the same as those I wrote about, although I hadn’t heard this one before:
Mary Still, a lawyer representing Sharman, said in an interview that users have the option of paying $29.95 for an adware-free version.
Sounds like extortion to me. You don’t like the mess we make of your computer? Pay up. Or else.
I will open a bottle of Champagne the day Kazaa disappears from the face of the earth.
Ed Bott 
No kidding. I have spent several marathon sessions on my brother’s computer cleaning up mostly Kazaa-related messes — even after I installed SP2 for him several months ago. It was the hardest and most challenging computer-related thing I have ever done on Windows, and that includes the Windows 95 days when just about everything was hard to do. Along with other related crudware problems, his computer was virtually unusable.
Is there a way, e.g., a setting from within Internet Explorer, or perhaps his antivirus program (Norton, I think), to prevent his teenage daugher (the real culprit here) from downloading this especially malicious crudware in the first place?
Ken, isn’t it better to talk to his teenage daughter and explain the problem? Prohibiting just that program, will make her try with other programs, probably even worse…
Otherwise, do a google for KazaaLite, and see if that’s still in production, a hacked version without all that shite.