Well, some days back a similar story had appeared about Morpheus having trojan or backdoor.
If true, this seems to be a disturbing trend - catch on popular software (esp. P2P) and put backdoors etc. on it hoping that people using it would be so crazy to just use it, that they would not look at suspicious traffic on their machines. - Sandip On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:43:24AM +0530, Raju Mathur spoke out thus: > I hope this is a joke -- can someone confirm? Full story at: > http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html > > Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa > > By John Borland > Staff Writer, CNET News.com > April 1, 2002, 5:35 PM PT > > A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of > downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to > remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network of > its own. -- Sandip Bhattacharya Mindframe Software Work: sandip @ mindsw.com, http://www.mindsw.com Play: sandipb @ bigfoot.com, http://www.sandipb.net ----------------------------------------------- ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
