Bearshare and SP2

[Sean]

Has anyone else had problems running bearshare or kazaa, or any p2p networks for that matter with SP2, and is there a way to patch the problems, because I have heard that SP2 limits connections to open ports, or something like that, I forget exactly what.

[Raptor]

How about turning off the Firewall that is automatically turned on when installing SP2?

And get rid of the P2P programs, they are nothing but a hazard to your privacy/security.

[Joleen]

Kazaa = bad
Azerus = good

Go with the bit torrent system of getting files.  It's fast.

[Sean]

Azerus?....I googled it and only came up with some band.....but bearshare has deicded to work...just not as fast as before...

[Joleen]

My bad.. Azureus.  There are lots of bittorrent clients out there.  I think Raptor uses BitTornado or something like that.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

[Raptor]

That's right, BitTornado.

I tried Azureus, didn't quite like it. I went back to Bit Tornado a few minutes later on.

http://bittornado.com/