There will be virii on whatever system you use, none is v-proof. As soon as Linux/MacOS raises above 7,5% of a userbase, it’ll get attractive too for virus-writers. ed2k, torrent, gnutella(2), kad, fasttrack,… they are all vurnable, some more than others. But it’s up to the user to use his brain. 400kb for the Harry Potter film is not possible, avi extension or exe (or pkg,…), doesn’t matter. Read comments before downloading if they are there. Know what you download, nero9 still does not exist. “Sharaza” is not Shareaza. “mesenger live” is not from microsoft.

Just saying.

Stupid dumbshits, wanna use windows then deepthroat my shit bitch.

Giving advices for these a major waste of time, like install super-assbuster-AV which won’t detect the hexed malware so u suck dick again asswipe, got what u deserve.

IT security industry please continue sucking my dick, fat dumbasses, die with ur degenerated family, thats what u all know wanking in the office every day and stoling others work.

Described as “One of the most prevalent pieces of malware in the last three years,” the Downloader-UA.h trojan is running wild on P2P networks. But thanks to its system strength – and the work of torrent site moderators – such outbreaks are shrugge…

- You have to be a Windows user
- You have to download a .EXE
- You have to manually execute a .EXE from an untrusted source, and not do it inside a sandbox

As usual, the only thing “running wild” here is utter stupidity and laziness. These are most likely to be the same clueless a-holes that don’t seed, so why try to protect them against this crap?

Claiming than an index site is a bottleneck is just laughable, as bittorrent is THE dominating protocol out there, despite it’s very centralized setup. The thing that makes bittorrent stand out from all of the other protocols in use is the fact that it was built for speed and large files.

But, as you say, the fault for getting a virus lies on the end user whose often relying on some security “suite” like norton or mcafee to lie to them that all is alright with the world.

If one wants to be completely secure, they have to constantly check and recheck their computer for odd behaviour, and turn off all automatic stuff, because that’s ALWAYS the road in for crapware like this.

However… I must admit that I didn’t even notice that the bittorrent network “shrugged off” any attacks :S

These files can embed URLs which will be accessed automatically by your browser, if you open them with the standard players like Microsoft’s Windows Media Player (WMP) or Apple’s Quicktime. Blame Microsoft and Apple for adding such a redundant but extremely dangerous feature to this container formats. These corporations are absolutely incapable of learning anything from their mistakes. This kind of vulnerability is very close to their other high-profile mistakes but they’re doing it over and over again.

It’s absolute bullshit if people claim you can’t get viruses/worms/trojans from pictures, videos or audio files. You can, you will. Moreover, these kind of people are too dense to understand that an average user has virtually no possible to tell the difference between active and passive content. The line between these is already heavily blurred because the anti-social, clueless, narrow-minded morons called “IT people” keep adding illogical, dangerous, misleading features to file formats and software that make it useless to apply common-sense or the like.

All of this has very little to do with P2P anyway. There a lot of evil, infected websites out there trying and succeeding in installing malware. Infections through P2P are just the tip of the iceberg, infections through the web and email are dominating by far.

People claiming “Gnutella is for n00bs” have it backwards. BitTorrent is for n00bs because it gives you far less options to do something wrong and almost everything is controlled through bottlenecks called index sites. That doesn’t mean BitTorrent is safe or secure. It sure isn’t but the right option for n00bs is BitTorrent and nothing else.

For morons there’s only one option: Pull the plug.

i’ve found amule to be handy when i’m looking for somewhat obscure music; e.g., japancakes. able to get entire album that wasn’t “out there”, either as torrent or rapidshare, etc.

Wow what a charged statement. It’s basically the equivalent of calling pirates terrorists. Are you seriously trying to imply that the RIAA or MPAA is behind this without even trying to link to proof?

Sorry, posted it around 3 times and did check back after more than an hour, couldnt understand it as whatever i posted before on TF always gets displayed in around a min.
Totally respect your security in place to limit the spamming bastards, they really spoil it for everyone.
I use Akismet on my site, you might want to look it up, it catches most of the garbage out there (disclosure: am not in any way connected to this product, just an end user like a lot of others)

this is their link:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Akismet

Cheers!
http://www.ezee.se/

The ed2k network doesn’t depend on trackers like bittorrent. Because of the Kad protocol not even servers are needed anymore.

Should a few larger BT trackers like TPB fall the ed2k network will still be up and running through Kademlia

The risk of downloading crap on ed2k is pretty small if you use common sense

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080508-alluring-mp3-movies-hit-limewire-install-malware-instead.html

Hope that helped!
Cheers!
http://www.ezee.se/

I’m surprised people still run that microsoft shit these days.

I’d bet dollars to donuts that you could open any of these files in VLC and nothing would happen. There’s no such thing as an exploit that works across all media players.

The only was this could get around is if it’s like a previous commentor described, these files are really .EXE and stupid fuckers are actually running them. If that’s the case, this is such non-news.

Terrible journalism at best here, you would think the writer of this article would have asked the obvious questions, but I guess not.

I still think PCs, power tools and lawnmowers should all have written tests, before you are allowed to own one, like cars and guns!

Full article and details are here:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080508-alluring-mp3-movies-hit-limewire-install-malware-instead.html

Hope that helped!

Cheers!

http://www.ezee.se/

and before ya laugh, it looked nothing like files mentioned above.(because im not a fucking idiot)
fuckin torrent had 93 seeds on mininova!
they REALLY need the comment sector on the same page as .tor
rant over
*sigh*

If you read carefully and understand virus’s, you will find this article is nothing but over-hyped scaremongering.

it’s value as “news” is absolutely zero.

pretty poor if you ask me.

hello bro, wrong site; hope you get your ip banned by mods for this.
other than that, what’s new in russia?

Also use linux for extra protection: http://www.ubuntu.com/

Torrent for 8.04 Hardy Desktop LiveCD i386: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

And all other releases at: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/