Re: Badware update through P2P?

["Mark Robinson" <mark.robinson () paradise net nz>]

> IIRC some virii or trojan horses tried to fetch updates from web pages,
> usually on free hosting services. And as soon as they are detected, the
> web account is closed and the dangerous files removed, so this does not
> look like a very efficient chanel.
>
> What would happen if such a nasty piece of code used some P2P protocol
> to update itself? e.g. Gnutella or eDonkey? Has anybody seen such a
> "feature"?

Kazaa does something like this.

Updates are thrown into the file sharing miasma and can and will be downloaded in chunks from a large (!)number of 
different
unqualified systems by any system which is being upgraded.

Mark Robinson