Pick up and serve yourself!?

[Chaerophon]

Is there a list of any particularly common statistics on items that I could look up? I would imagine that at this point, duping is so prevalent on the realms that virtually all "elite" items of any statistical quality have been duped to some extent. I just got back into the original Diablo and during my first tour, I played very little multiplayer due to an exceptionally poor computer. Anyways, I have a friend from school, a nice guy, who used to play the game as well and he gave me a KSoH, (he hasn't played in quite some time, either) something that I definitely never had in single player. It's got pretty crappy stats (as far as they go;) ), they are FAR from perfect, but if I'm going to be playing with loungers, or anyone else worthy of my respect, I would really like to be legit. I appreciated the gift and was actually quite excited about it, I'd really like to be able to use it but... I've always had some fairly distinct principles about this stuff, so why stop now? Some help would be appreciated.

As you can see, I didn't get into the original to nearly the same extent that I was involved in DII, but I'm looking forward to it. I just don't want to level up a character and then run into one of you guys with a scanner who determines that I'm using a dupe and dismisses me out of hand :)