re: TROJAN OR VIRUS ... help ... not sure what to do!
Sunday, May 2, 2004 at 2:40 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mojo7819
(5744 messages posted)
I'm not going to start a new thread for it, but here it is:
KaZaA, KaZaA Lite, Grokster, Bearshare, eDonkey2000, Morpheus, Limewire, Overnet,
Papigator, XoloX, Tesla, WinMX, Shareaza, Gnucleus and any other p2p file sharing
network will kill your computer! You have absolutely NO control over what is actually
included in the files that you are downloading. Many of these files contain viral
contents.
Many virii are spread through these file sharing networks without your knowlege.
Many of these will infect every file in your shared folder, and when someone downloads
a file from you, they are then infected, and they infect everyone that downloads
from them.
This is a never ending cycle.
Most of the programs used to access these networks install loads of spyware/adware/malware
onto your computer in the process of installing the program. Many people are under
the
false impression that if they use kazaa lite or another program that "claims" to
be free
of spyware, that they are safe. This is a costly misconception! Even IF these programs
are actually spyware free, this, in no way, stops the spread of virii through the
network.
By reading some of the virus information from the Symantec sites below, you will
see that
many of these virii will disable your anti-virus programs, to prevent them from being
detected. So the argument that it is safe to use file sharing networks as long as
you run
an anti-virus program is incorrect.
Some good reading:
http://users.sisna.com/mjmcmillan/myweb2/P2P.htm
Kazaa Delivers More Than Tunes
http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=4852
Also, here are just a few of the hundreds of virii that spread through p2p file sharing
networks.
Read how these are spread (through kazaa and other p2p file sharing networks):
w32.hllp.spreda.b
w32.hllw.astef
w32.hllw.kefy
w32.beagle.x@mm
w32.beagle.w@mm
w32.hllw.sanker
w32.hllw.cassidy
w32.hllw.merkur.e@mm
w32.hllw.kazkaz
vbs.pelic.worm
w32.hllw.winur
w32.kwbot.f.worm
w32.hllw.huntocx
Here is a list from Symantec's site that includes a number of virii that are
spread through kazaa and
other p2p file sharing networks.
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