P2P Programs: The Good, the Bad, and the Kazaa-Ugly
Friday, January 12, 2007
I revisited and added some new programs to MalwareRemoval's Safe/Unsafe P2P Programs Listing. If you're a helper at a malware forum, consider looking at it and educating yourself for when you see a program in a log. Feel free to link to it -- it's used as a reference by Firetrust's SiteHound toolbar, and I'd be thrilled to see users avoid suffering the legions of adware that Kazaa installs (at least they're upfront about it), or Warez P2P's unsolicited install of LOP adware, which is a royal pain to get removed.
As far as I know, it's the only list of its kind still updated every so often, and you can expect it to be kept-up a lot more in the future. Many thanks to ChrisRLG for hosting the list and reminding me to keep it updated! Please contact me with any issues about it via the address on the page (Nexus7 [at] malwareremoval [dot] com), but forgive me if I miss your message, as I'm barraged with spam on that account. Better-yet, leave me a comment here!
Letting loose another salvo in the war on malware...
~ Nexus7
Labels: malwareremoval, p2p
posted by David @ 9:37 PM,
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A Brief Interlude
You all (read: both of you) might be wondering what happened with Malwhere -- no new posts, comments, etc. Or you might not. Either way, I've been away from University on vacation, and have not had nearly as much malware work and interaction to deal with, so I've had less to comment on. Mind you, I'm a blog junkie, but out of my 24 security blogs I track, there's been little of great import...
On the other hand, I've been looking at my future work with the Information Security world, and my current activities/plans/goals include:
- Continued work at my University in their Clean Room (student computer troubleshooting/repair)
- Continued work on the excellent MalwareRemoval site, and helping in the other forums I'm a trainee helper at (Spyware Warrior, CastleCops, Process Library, TomCoyote)
- Updating the MWR Safe and Dangerous P2P Application list I run
- Attaining my BS in Computer Science, perhaps with an honors thesis
- Heading to Grad School for my MS in Information Security
- Making a life out of poking my finger into the eyes of spammers, thieves, and all the script kiddies out there
1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.
4. Freedom is good.
5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.
The article's recommendations concern everything from learning programming languages (see also the excellent "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years") to social interaction all the way to learning a musical instrument (I'm not kidding). It is quite practical, and much of it is sound advice. Note that this has nothing to do with crackers, or those who use computers to commit crimes and theft. Mr. Raymond is very clear on this.
Anyways, that's a short introduction to where I'm at -- I'll also post-up the results from my P2P retesting. Should be enlightening. ;)
~ Nexus7
Labels: education, forums, hacking, p2p
posted by David @ 8:33 AM,
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