i just got rid of kazaa becuase it causes a lot of viruses, it was a great p2p application but i dont want the viruses, thats where i got a lot of my movies, i am wondering what are some good p2p file sharing programs are, so if you could please help me out and give me some good ones i can get and where i can get them.
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Um, Kazaa doesn't cause viruses... It's what you download. Any p2p program will have viruses floating around them. People are D***S, it's the nature of the beast. Newsgroups and IRC are your alternatives besides p2p programs.
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I've never seen a virus that could embed itself onto mpeg or any other video format
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There can be virus's (sort of) in video files and in MP3s. If you check Microsoft's website you'll see that they had to fix a few security holes in media player that would allow a user to gain access to your machine using malicious code that was embedded in a video file. WinAmp did the same a while back.
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There can be virus's (sort of) in video files and in MP3s. If you check Microsoft's website you'll see that they had to fix a few security holes in media player that would allow a user to gain access to your machine using malicious code that was embedded in a video file. WinAmp did the same a while back.
And take into account that "malicious code" doesn't mean virii. a virus, a trojan or whatever you wanna call it is a program wich means its written in perl, c++, vbasic or anyother language. It's supossed to have a replication capability etc.
The exploit you mentioned allowed for someone to force the computer to execute a certain program. For example: An mp3 file with a command line like "C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows" would force any windows below XP to shutdown. this could be used to execute a virus in the computer, but only if it was already there. The same applies to jpg files that can also have this sort of malicious code. I think that as already been fixed.
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