Spyware, viruses, & security : P2P security.

(NT) Probably doesn't exist. P2P'ers beware!

By the way...

is this meaning that your effort to secure internet from viruses and such, is flawed by P2P back door? So Internet Explorer is not alone having some ' technical ' problems -_-

Bittorrent on Opera

Not a P2P user myself but I do use Opera browser which now includes a Bittorent Search. Am I right that all the warnings above apply here as well?

Sorry... Interjection

In reply to: Issues abound. Fast recap. by R. Proffitt 

I know I corrected you in one post, but don't take this second as a 'continued attack', I am merely correcting your infromation. Fortunatly. I will not fully correct your 'todays scans' freeware scans probally will turn up void but there are many good scanners out there and they can/will detect viral infromation at a frightening rate.

What I wanted to post about was a simple truth. The majority of viral infromation via the internet is spread using small files (5mb-100kb). Larger files MAY be infected, but that is 90% likely to be because the distributers client is infected.

The reason being is because people want to DISTRIBUTE virus'. In order to do THAT they have to have a download that will get onto as many peoples systems at once. Downloading something like MS office (500MB-1GB [give or take]) will probally stifle the download and distributation of a virus will be almost null.

I am not saying that all big files are 'virus free' but rather stating several facts that should be agnoledged.

First being that mass distributation of a virus occurs only if the file is small. If it is too big then it takes too much time for people to get the virus and when the virus is shutdown few if any are infected.

Second being that large downloads MAY be infected because the distributing computer is infected. The ILOVEYOU.TXT.vbs virus wormed into MP3 files, OBVIOUSLY using P2P networks to further distribute itself.

Finally, if you are using a P2P Client for copyright infringment, don't post about it on a publically viewed board with people who do NOT support it. Someone is likly to get an IP Tap on you, then run a whois and THEN turn you over to the propper authoritys.


Personally, I wonder what CNET was thinking letting this article go up... I mean it is about the distributation of illigally copied music.

+ R.I.P. +...the rap

Thanks 3rdalbum. Are you meaning that burning it as an ordinary audio CD, if viruses & spyware are embedded in the 70 minutes of music downloaded, are not burned as well?

Thaks a lot...

now there is a way out.