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| Thread ID: 108108 | 2010-03-14 06:13:00 | Whats the problems with P2P | tut (12033) | PC World Chat |
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| 867137 | 2010-03-15 22:51:00 | Download free legal p2p Here. (http://www.vuze.com/) | Trev (427) | ||
| 867138 | 2010-03-16 02:14:00 | My kid has had limewire on his computer for a couple of years and it still works Years ago when I first installed limewire I did a malware scan before,and straight after. Straight away trojan found after installing it. Every PC ive found with limewire on it is infected. Ive used peer to peer to get linux distros, quite quickly. |
pkm (13527) | ||
| 867139 | 2010-03-16 02:35:00 | P2P programs area magnet for infections - only takes one download to be bad/infected and its away laughing. Cleaning a customers PC at the moment -- They have Limewire, infected to the point of not even booting, or being able to access the contents of the drive even when slaved. Had to start cleaning it Via a selection of cleaners from a bootable CD. Results so far -- Rootkits = 8 Between two cleaners = 183 - (42 were trojans) After cleaning those, I finally managed to got it to slave and read the drive -- Scanned with Nod32 as a slave = 34 Infections. Finally after that lot - its booting, all but slow :sleep NOW start again --- Run Trojan Remover - 24 more. Currently running Spybot S&D going nuts with infections. With the rootkits, it may be a fresh install, you can never be 100% sure if they are all gone. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 867140 | 2010-03-16 05:09:00 | Theres nothing dangerous about P2P if you know what your doing. Like if your wanting a particular song and the file is 300k then instead of clicking and thinking yay saving my internet cap, just stop and think. no song worth having is 300k in size |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 867141 | 2010-03-16 05:30:00 | At least 15 of the songs from the customers PC I put just before had file sizes of approx 3.5Mb - 5 Mb in size - and they had the correct names for the song / Artist, but still contained Trojans, so their sizing was about right for a MP3. Still scanning and its finding several other infections -Oh Hummmmmm! |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 867142 | 2010-03-16 05:32:00 | Were the "songs" in an audio format though? | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 867143 | 2010-03-16 05:34:00 | The only thing P2P is good for are techs ;) Theyre probably the only ones, that wont complain. As the saying goes, the more the merrier :banana:clap | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 867144 | 2010-03-16 06:06:00 | Were the "songs" in an audio format though? From what I could see - Yes. The scanner picked them up while doing a scan from the bootable CD (UBCD4Win) - spybot S&D. The file names went somthing like -- (Location on drive) - 02-Artist-Songtitle.mp3 / Trojan.... |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 867145 | 2010-03-16 06:23:00 | I really have no problems with people using Limewire or such. I get more work that way. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 867146 | 2010-03-16 06:29:00 | mp3 files are not executable, so the only way you can get infected by it is if your media player (WMP anyone...) runs the code it finds inside. A decent media player will just ignore it as invalid data. Or you could rename it to *.exe & give that a go. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
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