From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 08:25:14 MST
Alfio Puglisi <puglisi@arcetri.astro.it> said:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, gts wrote:
>
> >--- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi@arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
> >
> >> It's not so difficult to find those [Al-Jazeera]
> >> videos on the Net. Just fire up Kazaa, or eDonkey,
> >> or any decent P2P app, and search...
> >
> >I'm sure that is so, but as you know I recently
> >suffered a serious breach of my computer security, and
> >while investigating it I learned that these P2P
> >networks are fraught with viruses, trojans, spyware
> >and other malware.
>
> Yes, some P2P programs are full of spyware. But many are not. Kazaa-lite,
> for example, is a better Kazaa without spyware. Various Gnutella clients
> are community-based open source programs, where it's difficult to hide
> anything malicious.
> After picking up the right program, the usual rule of never downloading
> executable programs is enough. Just search for pure-data files, like mp3,
> avi, mpg, etc.
It is not just the spyware. Apparently, in order to protect Massa's
intellectual property, "they" are flooding kazaa et al., with files that
contain embedded virii.
Keygen apps are infected at about 20% or more.
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