P2P gives you viruses

A DENVER TELLY company, 7News, claims that P2P downloading will give you hundreds of viruses and spyware.

Billed as an ‘exclusive’ news item, hacks working for the television company turned on a computer and downloaded three P2P programs. They searched few free music sites and downloaded some torrents and left the PC running to see what they got.

Since it was telly, useful information such as what the hacks did was not reported. However 7News claimed that the Kazaa, Bit Torrent and Limewire gave them “suspect files” and some nasty spyware.

One of the claims the telly program made was that the Limeware P2P program installed a password cracker. However, the base program contains no such code, so we wonder where 7News downloaded its code from.

The other thing that 7News had problems with were loads of pop-ups which apparently drove them to sites which downloaded more suspect files. So they didn’t run any pop-up blocker on their browsers. Then, because we all do this apparently, the hacks turned off the firewall and virus checker because it was a “common and often hidden vulnerability caused by expired and outdated software or clicking on deceptive popups”.

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