Fake MP3s Running Rampant on Limewire, eDonkey

[Jorge]

McAfee Avert Labs reports of more than 600,000 VirusScan Online users detecting an executable trojan in what it calls the most significant malware outbreak since 2005.
Every file-sharer is hopefully well aware of the dangers of unknown executable files. The importance of this knowledge was proved again recently following a report on the McAfee Avert Labs blog that more than 600,000 McAfee VirusScan Online users detected a Trojan horse masquerading as a media file on a number of P2P and file-sharing networks.
Called the most significant malware outbreak since 2005, some 28% of the 2 million plus PCs scanned in the past 7 days are reported to be infected with the Trojan referred to as Downloader-UA.h.

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Really? Gnutella and ED2K are rife with viruses? Jeez'O'Pete, who'da thunk it?