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Full Disclosure: Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware

Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware

From: Michael Renzmann <security_at_dylanic.de>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:12:07 +0100

Hi.

Bernardo Quintero wrote:
>>Impossible .... At least 90% of the files on KaZaA are media files
... (non
>>executable files)
>>I know there's a lot of bad .exe's on kazaa ... But 45% just can't be
right
> Obviously.

I'm no native english speaker, but... the way I understood the original
headline is: 45% of the files that get _downloaded_ contain malware. The
fact that more than 90% of the hosted files are non-executable media
files does not mean that these type of files also make up 90% of the
things that get downloaded. It could well be that the relatively small
amount of "potentially executable" files are overly proportional often
downloaded from KaZaA.

Nevertheless, it would be interesting to learn more about the
methodology that has been used for this report.

Bye, Mike

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