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January 9th, 2004, 06:34 PM
Link to story: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61852,00.html
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-{ Quote: "Kazaa Delivers More Than Tunes
By Kim Zetter
07:00 AM Jan. 09, 2004 PT
Forty-five percent of the executable files downloaded through Kazaa, the most popular file-sharing program, contain malicious code like viruses and Trojan horses, according to a new study.
Out of 4,778 files downloaded in one month, Bruce Hughes, director of malicious code research at security firm TruSecure, found that nearly half of them contained various types of nefarious code.
Some code was designed to infect every file in a computer user's Kazaa download directory with a virus. Other code would steal the user's AOL Instant Messenger password or install a program on their computer to allow the attacker to surreptitiously send spam through it or otherwise take over the machine remotely to steal personal data and files on the computer.
Hughes said the code he found in shared files got there in one of three ways...
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-URL tags added to the link - paul
-{ Quote: "Kazaa Delivers More Than Tunes
By Kim Zetter
07:00 AM Jan. 09, 2004 PT
Forty-five percent of the executable files downloaded through Kazaa, the most popular file-sharing program, contain malicious code like viruses and Trojan horses, according to a new study.
Out of 4,778 files downloaded in one month, Bruce Hughes, director of malicious code research at security firm TruSecure, found that nearly half of them contained various types of nefarious code.
Some code was designed to infect every file in a computer user's Kazaa download directory with a virus. Other code would steal the user's AOL Instant Messenger password or install a program on their computer to allow the attacker to surreptitiously send spam through it or otherwise take over the machine remotely to steal personal data and files on the computer.
Hughes said the code he found in shared files got there in one of three ways...
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.
." }-