Downloading file`s with file sharing programs as Kazaaa and there clones(morpheus enz enz) brings along a risk of virusses and trojan horses.
This article have some good information of it.
KaZaA the media desktop has been one of the most successful replacements for file sharing after U.S. courts ordered Napster to shut down. KaZaA offers its users a way of sharing music, video, documents, images, and software. |
But six per cent of all music downloaded from KaZaA is not music at all, but a virus. Currently, there is no way to infect mp3s with a virus; however KaZaA's poor filtering allows someone to rename a virus to - say - cant_touch_this.mp3.vbs. When you do a search for the song named "Can't Touch This" KazaA will display this as "cant_touch_this.mp3", without displaying the .vbs extension.
This problem affects more than music: Hacker's Digest Labs has found the Love Letter Virus disguise as videos, images and executables.
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Source: The Register.
