 It followed 2 days after the new owners of the project domain (see the shareaza.com domain takeover) exploited the updating mechanism to emit a false update message to trick users into installing their fake Shareaza V4 client, and contained a fix for this issue.v2.4.0.0
Version 2.4.0.0 of Shareaza was released on October 1, 2008, with many bug fixes and major changes to provide better stability of the client.It was the first stable release to include IRC support.