Thanks, David.
Chuck Norcutt
David Thatcher wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:22:44PM -0800, Richard Man wrote:
>> We *STILL* have people promoting stealing software on this list?
>>
>> This is ridiculous. There is a difference in freedom of speech and
>> promoting thievery and piracy.
>
>
> very late in on this one, sorry. Even putting the moral issues to one
> side, a word of warning to anyone tempted to obtain software from these
> 'free download' sites is in order...
>
> In the old days these sites were often supplied by people wanting to
> 'stick it to The Man'. Unfortuately money is now the object.
>
> I maintain Internet routers & firewall appliances for a living. In a lot
> of recent cases where virus/malware activity has been detected, wading
> back through the logs to find the first machines to have been infected
> shows infection to have been preceded by a visit to one of these
> 'downloadz' or 'warez' sites to obtain pirated software.
>
> the infections that are being seen are more & more often 'botnet'
> viruses, where your PC is made to be part of a large network of infected
> devices, & the 'owners' of the botnet sell either the infection of your
> PC with the client's malware (e.g. keyloggers, SPAM engines, DDOS
> engines), or use of functions of the botnet to perform the same tasks.
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139056-c,hackers/article.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet
>
> scary stuff...
>
> davidt
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