Media files that spread spyware

[Peaches4U]

Would you believe that the author of the article linked to below did a test and found that loading one of the malicious video files resulted in 31 separate programs and an amazing 11,915 registry entries on his test machine.

Media Files that Spread Spyware
http://www.benedelman.org/news/010205-1.html

[ronjor]

What a great post Peaches! P2P and activeX--what a combination.

[Peaches4U]

-{ Quote: "What a great post Peaches! P2P and activeX--what a combination." }-

Here is more - read what Eric from IE-Spyad has to say....

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12245912~mode=flat~start=20

I am told that Media Player Classic is a great free subsitute & it is free. http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

[nadirah]

Do they spread via P2P only?