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Edited by
Sumthingdifferent
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Sun 12/30/07 07:50 PM
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Most of the time it has to be an executable and if you are simply downlaoding pictures or home movies it can be safe enough if you are smart about it. Also it has been implied but not straight out said (as some claim to be idiots) file sharing programs of any sorts aren't illegal... it is what you share is illegal. also last I checked downloading isn't as much a problem as sharing is as far as legality goes. Just figured I would clear some things up. just thought i would clear you up, anything can contain a virus these days, pictures, music, videos, not just exe files. any file. and no p2p programs of any sort are perfectly legal, it's sharing copy righted material that is illegal. If it is going to be an actual vius, ie do something to your machine, it has to be (or contain) an executable as pictures and audio clips themselves are just data that another program interprets (I do this for a living) so in order to cause any dmaage it needs to be an executable of sorts, otherwise you picture viewing program or music player will jsut get confused when trying to intepret the bytes it thinks are music as somehting else. If they are really tricky they can use exploits in the music players to attempt to launch another executable but that is harder to do and still requires the .exe to be on your machine. Most of those exploits tend to be fixed eventually and picked up on by virus checkers but they are always finding new ones anyway. for the most part if you are careful about what you download and run, you should be fine Dude, you forgot an IMPORTANT thing..MOST PEOPLE KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT COMPUTERS!!!  
And you are wrong about not being able to attach viruses to pictures, media clips, etc..it's ALL being done now! I have been wrestling with these POS' for over 17 years and I can use a P2P and crash YOUR system within 5 min and all you have to be is ONLINE and connected to the P2P! Ever wonder WHY the Service Packs (SP's) are so dammm BIG?? cause they have HUGE holes that hackers exploit in the programming! You may use a P2P, but PLEASE, don;t be giving the "average" user some false sense of "security" using any P2P system. They are NOT safe. 
And no, it's not because you are "lucky" as you put it in the other statement...it's because there are a lot more places the hackers want in on than your computer, which is no challenge nor do they have much "valuable" information..that's the main reason you are not hacked. But why take that chance over open P2P??? Much easier and safer ways than using a P2P. |
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