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Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware
From: Michael Renzmann <security () 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.
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- 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware Bernardo Quintero (Jan 08)
- Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware Mary Landesman (Jan 09)
- Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware madsaxon (Jan 09)
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- Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware Bernardo Quintero (Jan 09)
- Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware Michael Renzmann (Jan 09)
- Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware Mike Shaw (Jan 09)
- Re: 45% of the free files collected via KaZaA contained malware Mary Landesman (Jan 09)