The Random Report - Poisoned P2P Networks

Are you downloading something other than your favorite mp3?
by: Michael Bean
January 11, 2006: 9:57 PM EST

As we know, when you download from P2P networks you always have the chance of downloading spyware or other bogus material. The RIAA and their supporters contribute to this. They ether make the file unreadable, or just chance the name of the file to a blank file. That's if you are lucky. In most cases, viruses and malicious software can infect your computer which could expose your computer. Then hackers can use your computer at here will. Most networks with malicious software are normally the most popular networks. More people get infected if the network is used more often. To check a list of the "Good" and the "Bad", check out this site I found. It lists all the networks which are infected and clean and keeps it up-to-date.

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