Shareaza.com domain is stolen and spreads by malicious client

    The news is not the latest, maybe someone already knows, but it was not written on Habré, and there is an opinion that many have not heard about it. For example, I got caught and decided that Shareaza simply underwent strong changes ...

    So, since December last 2007, the site shareaza.com is no longer the official site of the famous file sharing client Shareaza. At the moment, the site is a fake for the customer’s site familiar to users. The fake was performed so reliably that inexperienced users will decide that there was an easy redesign on the site, and the program itself just changed its functionality a little.

    The site offers to download the Shareaza4 client, which has nothing to do with the original client and does not even have functions for working with p2p networks (eDonkey, Gnutella, BitTorrent). Moreover, the program is aimed at the commercial provision of services, you will be prompted to enter a credit card number in order to subsequently pay for some functions of the “new” service.

    The original Shareaza is now located at: http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/

    It is recommended that everyone upgrade to Shareaza version 2.3.1.0, as previous versions are updated from shareaza.com, which is no longer owned by the shareware creators. Updating previous versions can lead to the result that you will receive a completely different client.

    And yet, what happened to the shareaza.com domain?


    Initially, the domain belonged to the creator of the Shareaza p2p client, Michael Stokes. At the time he created this client, he was unemployed. After he declared himself, releasing Charease, he was offered a job. In this regard, he was forced to leave Shareaza and gave it to the public domain (open source), transferring the domain to a person trustworthy in his opinion, Jonathan Nelson.

    Nelson managed the domain for several years. However, he subsequently became the only one who could be held accountable (and should have been responsible) for Shareaza's activities in the face of SPPF (La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France - Recording Society of France). After that, Jonathan Nelson "went to the bottom", stopping all communication with the team of Chareazy. Nelson at the moment has lost all ties with the Shareaza development team and is not part of it and will not be such in the future (developers believe).

    It was further reported that the shareaza.com domain was “hijacked” and is no longer controlled by Jonathan Nelson. The domain is now controlled by MusicLab, which is miraculously a partner of SPPF. Nelson neither confirms nor refutes that the domain was sold, but there are rumors that the sale of the domain to MusicLab could have taken place after reaching an agreement with the prosecution that the case against Nelson would be terminated.

    MusicLab also gained control over the resource of another file-sharing client - BearShare. Those. there is evidence that MusicLab aims to gain control over some P2P resources.

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