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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/27/exeem_lite/

eXeem Lite promises spyware-free P2P

Get it while you can

By John Leyden

Posted in Music and Media, 27th January 2005 09:30 GMT

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Developers this week released a spy-ware free version of popular P2P app eXeem. The official version of eXeem [1], which entered into public beta this week, is contaminated with an adware app called Cydoor [2].

eXeem Lite [3] 0.19 is smaller - 1.9MB compared to 2.5MB - and promises file trading without search hijacking and pop-up ad bombardment. Unlike eXeem, eXeem Lite is also available to Linux users (who need to run the app using WINE).

Enjoy it while you can. History suggests it's a matter of time before the developers of eXeem sue the developers of eXeem Lite - or try to exclude users from the P2P network. That's what happened with a Kazaa Lite, remember?

eXeem is based on the BitTorrent idea, but with nodes in the program taking the role of BitTorrent trackers. As the eXeem Lite FAQ [4] explains, connecting to the network can be a little hit and miss. Our attempts to connect to the network using eXeem Lite proved fruitless until we applied a registry patch for eXeem Lite, available on MyeXeem [5]. This updates the app with a list of valid nodes needed to establish a connection. The patch can be applied automatically on XP. But changes must be done manually using regedit on Win 2000 and Windows 98 machines. ®

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