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p2pnet.net News:- Spammers will tell you it’s only bidnes. But to us, it’s online pollution of the worst kind. Rank cybertrash fit only for binning.
Now, “With the e-mail channel now pretty well saturated with spam,” 67.7% of all email, on average, according to MessageLabs, says InfoWorld, “there’s a vast hunger out there in the huckster community for a new way to reach users.”
Enter p2p, now, “a direct to customer spamvertizing medium,” says gadi on SecuriTeam Blogs.
“This has been an ongoing change for a while,” it says. “As we speak, it is moving from a proof of concept trial to a full spread of spam, day in, day out.”
The story lists “eBook - Googlecash - Make Money using google (Learn to use Affiliate programs to make easy money).pdf” as an example and goes on:
“I don’t really see organizations implementing anti-spam products for P2P (not that these exist), nor do I see ISPs protecting their users on P2P (when they generally don’t want them there).
P2P will remain one of the worst mediums for infecting users with malware, and now so far, spammers haven’t been imitating ‘legitimate,’ observes gadi. But it’s coming on, say, mp3 songs, and it’s comoing soon, states the post, adding:
“At that time, the P2P networks which will react will survive. It won’t be easy. Especially as I don’t predict they will do so until it is, by far, too late. Much like with spam, botnets and spyware, threats are generally ignored until they become very painful. In my opinion the Bit Torrent network will be easier to control, as downloads can be verified if seeded and advertised via trusted sites.
“Large torrent sharing sites are the main threat.
Also See:
InfoWorld - Spam migrating to P2P networks, November 22, 2006
SecuriTeam Blogs - P2P as a new spam medium, moving from PoC to full operations, November 22, 2006
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November 23rd, 2006 at 7:35 pm
who cares if people who are to dumb to recognize malware and spyware get infected through p2p services. These are the same people who share their entire hard drive and then complain because they didn’t read the fuckin manual. We live in a world where someone will always take advantage of an advertising medium, and I can’t see the government FTC stomping on these companies anytime soon unless they can get significant money out of them.
If you are to stupid to recognize spyware or malware, you shouldn’t be doing it. If you can’t tell a goldfish from a shark, don’t stick your hand in the water.
What i find much worse is the p2p networks, bittorrent mostly, that pay their bills, and pocket cash, through donations and advertisements on their site. They should be shot just the same as spyware companies. What’s worse are these sites that make you pay and they “show you” how to download off p2p networks. The government quickly goes after free sites like suprnova.org but when it comes to suprnova.com, who probably makes millions of dollars off of it, they are still online and alive.
November 24th, 2006 at 1:29 am
…that thinks a bit further and understands that those infected machines are the amunition in botnet attacks and other nasty stuff.
Or do you think the bad guys are using dedicated machines in some server colocation park
November 24th, 2006 at 7:01 am
im not arguing that infected machines can be used in something like a ddos but my point was that people need to learn how to properly use their computer the same way they learn to do everything else. I will never explain myself better than to just simply state that people are to inept in general to use computers, and the ones that think they know about computers and don’t, cause most of the problems simply because they do things that they don’t know how to. People who share their entire hard disks on kazaa, don’t do so because kazaa doesn’t thoroughly explain why and how not to share certain files but they don’t bother to read anything in front of their faces. Those people should not use computers, at least beyond word processing. Most of them should not even be allowed to connect to the internet.
The problem goes beyond computers though and it just shows the expanding incompetency people have in every day life.