# Is Kazaa still full of Spyware? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 25, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-kazaa-still-full-of-spyware/100023 "2002-03-25T16:24:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-kazaa-still-full-of-spyware/100023/1 "2002-03-25T16:24:19Z")
Morpheus was Great. RIP Morpheus as the Gnu P2P protocol sucks. Kazaa I’d switch to but read that it installs at least 50 (read 69) ‘spyware’ applications that are a pig to get rid of. However I don’t know how old that review was and with people switching from Morpheus all the time are they still getting away with Kazaa installing so much other (unwanted) stuff. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-kazaa-still-full-of-spyware/100023/2 "2002-03-25T18:26:59Z")
Yep, Kazaa is still spyware loaded. Fortunately, you can do something about it. Check out [http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/5077/new/cleankazaa.html](http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/5077/new/cleankazaa.html) (Astonishing! A useful Geocities link!) ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-kazaa-still-full-of-spyware/100023/3 "2002-03-25T21:13:00Z")
I have a feeling that the mods will be shutting this one down REAL soon. I avoided kazaa because of the spyware initially too. There are way’s around it but I am lazy.