Kazaa Lite, Adobe Files, & Viruses

[p645n]

I just wanted to mention the percentage of Adobe Acrobat, Elements 2 and Photoshop 7.0.1 files that contain viruses is *very* high. If your going to download those files you'd better have your anti-virus program up to date.

[alliercollins]

As long as you stick to what is the most common, you will very rarely run into viruses. In fact, I haven't in months. Thanks to search more, I can get a pretty large list to compare. With a simple sort by users, I can usually pick out what could be a virus and what is much too common to be.

[phalkon30]

In over a year of heavily downloading off of kazaa and winmx, I have recieved a total of 2 virus's

One I got from a malformed media file, it silently corrupted my boot.ini, I had to reformat my dads work computer (oops!)

The other I got from not watching extensions, .mp3.vbs (I feel retarded just by admitting I did that!)

Basicly, if something has a lot of sources, its a good indication that its virus free, also if you notice something suspicious, like a discription of "pokemon britteny spears blowjob hacker metallica porn crack keygen virus etc etc", or mismatched filename/ discriptions, don't even touch it with a rubber glove

just USE YOUR HEAD and you should be fine (a fairly large percentage of all files on kazaa are virus's)

[RACKnRAIL]

I can confirm that photoshop 7.0.1 virus. My friend downloaded that the other day off Kazaa. Oddly enough, Norton AV was affected or should I say infected and corrupted as a result. He had to uninstall Norton then run an online virus scan to clean it out. No other damage though.

[p645n]

Yes Photoshop 7.0.1 was one file that was infected. Adobe Acrobat (full version) was a second. Adobe Elements 2 was a third. Norton 2003 called 2 of the viruses worms or Kazaa worms. The third was another virus. Norton could not clean the files, it would not allow the downloads to continue.

[Sockfulloflove]

basically listen to what phalkon said, and you will be fine and virus free. i've only recieved 1 virus which AVG caught when i scanned the file, the file was a ROM.

[wonderboy2005]

well since we're on the subject of warning eachother, i figure i ought to join in on the fun.

DO NOT download anything relating to windowblinds 4 via kazaa. it will come up with a crapload of files the first search, but none of em have multiple sources and they all are viruses. i tried downloading it, and my virus scanner deleted the files at about 600kb of the ~1.5 that the average file is.

[p645n]

So tonight I was trying to d/l a plugin for Photoshop 7. Here is the screenshot. Either my virus scanner is set so as any little thing sets it off or a lot of people are d/l'ing this virus.

[phalkon30]

Nah, thats not a virus like activity thing, thats a virus, you got one, norton removed it

[p645n]

Of coarse it is a notice thar Norton removed a virus from one of the files that is highlite and thus downloading. I posted it as an example of what I've been getting from programs on Kazaa Lite that I've been attempting to download. On this example Norton was able to clean it, on other examples Norton can not. That causes all sorts of rather nervous grief as you attempt to get your locked up computer running. I have a funny feeling that a lot of people don't keep their anti-virus scanners up to date. I'd hate to say that sooner or later they are going to wake up going....help

[phalkon30]

lol, I can garuntee most don't have theirs updated, when I was on dialup, I had never heard of windows update till about 2 months before I got broadband, and when I found out, I didn't download updates, I didn't want to tie up the phone line that long

I don't even think I HAD an anti virus back then, lol

[RACKnRAIL]

Originally posted by alliercollins
As long as you stick to what is the most common, you will very rarely run into viruses. In fact, I haven't in months. Thanks to search more, I can get a pretty large list to compare. With a simple sort by users, I can usually pick out what could be a virus and what is much too common to be.

Don't be fooled by that theory. That may work for most video or MP3 files, but I can confirm that Adobe is infected. The version I found on Kazaa had over 40 users, all with the same infected file. Downloading software .exe files has it risks, we all know that. Just a word of caution.

[p645n]

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Originally posted by alliercollins
As long as you stick to what is the most common, you will very rarely run into viruses. In fact, I haven't in months. Thanks to search more, I can get a pretty large list to compare. With a simple sort by users, I can usually pick out what could be a virus and what is much too common to be.
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As RACKnRAIL saying "Don'y get fooled by that theory"
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I agree...IT"S WRONG!

[p645n]

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Originally posted by alliercollins
As long as you stick to what is the most common, you will very rarely run into viruses. In fact, I haven't in months. Thanks to search more, I can get a pretty large list to compare. With a simple sort by users, I can usually pick out what could be a virus and what is much too common to be.
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As RACKnRAIL saying "Don'y get fooled by that theory"
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I agree...IT"S WRONG!!
Last night two pinball player files I tried to D/L were infected. Today winzip...here is that screenshot notice there are 11 users.Does each user blissfully sit there letting this worm run around on their computer?