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Thread ID: 96107	2008-12-29 10:18:00	Are all torrents this slow???	Zippity (58)	Press F1

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733429	2009-01-02 05:24:00	I have - its not in the avi - its in the torrent as a separate file. A classic example is a music track a customer was after for their wedding - they tried to legally buy it, but it was to old and couldn't find it - they used limewire - and I was told that it took them over 40 tries to download the song, as each time Nod32 picked up trojans from the downloads - in the end they found a cd at a second hand store with the song and brought it for $2 That's a good possibility but anyone with half a brain can easily spot an extra file attached to the torrent which doesn't make sense. The only extra files that should be there are subtitles or an nfo file which contains a description of the video. I don't use Limewire for that reason. But again, it's not too hard to spot fake files especially when they're only 25KB, end in EXE and have strange keywords attached to them that make no sense (only so that the maximum number of searches will find them, and hopefully download the virus) But I agree with you, if someone is silly enough to download that sort of thing without applying common sense then that's their fault. If it was me I'd happily blame myself.	Agent_24 (57)
733430	2009-01-02 06:19:00	Thats the problem Agent - you hit the nail on the head -:thumbs: Common Sense and Know what to look for - many people dont. Persons PC I was finishing today - Did a Virus scan with Nod on their old drive as a slave, the kids had been downloading with limewire - out of the 300 or so songs they had - at least a 1/3 had Trojans attached and had totally destroyed the system - Nod went nuts.	wainuitech (129)
733431	2009-01-02 08:02:00	Yeah it maybe not so much a lack of common sense but a general lack of understanding of computers and how they work. Someone searches for a song, they see the first one with 1000 sources, and it's only 25KB (oh goody it will download faster!) not really understanding what the difference is between MP3 and EXE. I mean a lot of people don't even know how to get file extensions showing on XP (and some may not even know what they were anyway!) I've seen people rename files, totally nuke the extension and then wonder why they don't work afterwards I find once you know a fair bit about how something works, it becomes very easy to spot weird things. eg: An average user may never think twice about finding "hxy2n188.dll" in their system32 folder because "everything else in there has weird names anyway!" yet to someone who knows, it'll stick out like a sore thumb...	Agent_24 (57)
733432	2009-01-03 08:54:00	Windows + easy p2p = more viruses,more IT callouts, GDP goes up :banana	michael_elliston (11766)
733433	2009-01-03 09:17:00	I used to have some sympathy with the copyright owners until the shop next to my work was served with court papers from APRA because he refused to pay a fee to have the radio playing in his shop whilst he worked. If the logic is that the music or movie is free to listen to or watch because ads pay for the right to do so, then charging a shop for having the radio on is double dipping, after all the radio stations are paying a fee, and rightly so because the music is the vehicle used to deliver the ads. It also raises the question of rights of premise owners. If I played only free music released under" creative commons" licensing APRA would still come after me, it would in effect , be up to me to prove that I played royalty free music, I would be guilty until proven innocent. Also the ISP thing coming into effect will do nothing to stop P2P. An awful lot of packets will have to be sniffed and already the P2P communities have things in place to thwart these types of measures. I don't know anyone who doesn't use Limewire or uTorrent and in a small country like NZ it will hurt a lot of ISP's to ban their bussiness base. I'm confident that it will be a lot of piddling into the breeze.	limepile (96)
733434	2009-01-03 09:56:00	:banana:clap:banana:banana:clap	Zippity (58)
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