GameSpy and KaZaa infected by virus

[The Continental]

Heads up

Story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/25945.html)

[g222leav]

hmmmmm, i don't use gamespy anymore, but i do use kazaa...interesting....thanx

[Burzhui]

Users are urged to update their anti-virus protection and to be mindful of the risk of infection that can occasionally come with using file sharing services, which seem to be becoming a target for virus writers

Masters of the friggin obvious

[molecularfire]

Hehehehe... a friend of mine just got screwed with this virus a few days ago. :(

[ribitch]

kazaa seems to be thge best way to spread a virus. Last summer there was a big deal about how it only recognizes .mp3 from .mp3.vbs They kinda ignored anything after the third character after the period.

I dont know if this is fixed or not, but that is the reason I tell people to avoid it and use limewire or something similar.

[mojo]

i dunno. mine seems to filter out the .mp3.vbs files :shrug:

[DaFunkyUnit]

last nite i had the pleasure of receiving the nimda virus. I updated my version of Kazaa lite and went out to dinner. when i came back around 10pm, a bunch .eml files called "Shortcut to hb3" or something like that was somehow placed in the Documents and Settings directory. Luckily, Anti-Virus caught it, and i was able to delete after some fussing.

Dammit, i need a router! and quick! I hate having software-based firewall.

[MJordanash]

I'm not too surprised by it. Likely to happen with file sharing.

[NuTs62]

i guess those of us who are "sharing" on these P2P networks can't really complain now can we..? afterall, we are kind of doing something that is a :nono: and well, viruses are an inherant risk of such an activity.. but then again, u can contract viruses from anywhere.. oh well. be safe kids, use protection! :)