![]() ![]() I've loaded kazaa on a sandbox computer and downloaded executable files pertaining to cracks of various kinds, and virtually all of them were not cracks at all but were trojans/viruses, etc.īundling trojans/spyware into an application is slow, restrictive and pointless when there are so many more effective ways to do so, including activex, email worms, seeded trojans in the p2p network, etc. ![]() ![]() Why would the makers of kazaa bundle spyware/trojans etc directly into their application when it's easier to allow the user to search for something they want and have a hit not on what they really wanted but spyware masquerading as what they wanted? It's probably far too easy to create a virus, giving it an enticing name like 'xpcrack.exe' and plop it in your shared folder and wait for someone to pick it up. You query other machines on the network for files and pray it's not riddled with spyware, etc. Very difficult or impossible to spoof the saved file.Ģ) The likes of kazaa. You download from an authoritative server a 'control' file that has an MD5 checksum of a file you want. ![]()
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