NOTICE: Spreaders of Worms & Viruses

[ganerd]

While prepearing for today's sermon, I was downloading some referance material off WinMX and ran across an individual or Company that is spreading viruses. They have about 615 files infected with worms or viruses.
Their Whois was as follows:

Reported by WinMX Peer Network remote host
Time/date of report: Sat Feb 14 01:23:16 2004
User Name: lee123_37401
Connection Type: T1
Files shared: 615
Elapsed time online: 11:08:35
Transfer Status: 2 of 2 available

All the files are fairly short and all are exe's. That is what made me suspicious. The files that I check had I-worm/Lablan.A

I am placing this on other forums also.

Does anyone know an address where this type activity can be reported? If so you are welcome to place a copy of this notice on those sited.
Rev. Ganerd

[dvk01]

That's why all P2P programs are inherently dangerous, not just Kazaa and the other applications bundled with spyware.

The so called safe applications are just as bad

It is estimated that approximately 75% of alll downloaded files using these applications are either the wrong file or contain viruses and trojans

A 1 in 4 chance of getting the right file, that is clean is NOT good odds in my book

If you will insist on stealing software and music/videos, you pay the penalty

[FukenFooser 007.5]

No, I think you are wrong on this.
maybe 25% wrong or infected, but closer to 10%
stealing is also a strong word for share the wealth.

But thats My opinion


Have a nice day.

[ganerd]

Think maybe "dvk01" means the same as "RIAA"?

[dvk01]

read these rather eyeopening pages about P2P programs and their scumware contents
the robot army one is especially informative
http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/articles/p2p/
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/robotarmy/
http://www.stealingisillegal.com/


these sites give some figures, both say nearly 50% are infected, but other reports say that over 25 % are mis named or deliberately wrongly named

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=365
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1525934,00.asp



Added URL tags - Pieter http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=19869