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January 18, 2004

Kazaa as virus vector

Wired reports that Kazaa is being widely used as a delivery mechanism for viruses.

Forty-five percent of the executable files downloaded through Kazaa, the most popular file-sharing program, contain malicious code like viruses and Trojan horses, according to a new study. About 3 million users are logged onto Kazaa at any one time. Hughes said this has made the file-sharing network increasingly attractive as a channel for distributing malware.

This study only looked at executable files. The article also links to an earlier (c. 2002) piece reporting Windows XP and Winamp vulnerabilities that could be exploited to create malicious MP3 files.
"The ubiquity of file-swapping services makes it the perfect attack vector for a malicious MP3 file," Foundstone CEO George Kurtz said.

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