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Increase in P2P Malware Predicted for 2010
Filed in archive Analysis by jeff goldman on January 2, 2010
Increase in P2P Malware Predicted for 2010
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Kaspersky Lab's 2010 cyberthreat forecast anticipates that malware writers will increasingly target P2P networks in the coming year.


"Kaspersky Lab said that it expects an increase in mass malware epidemics over P2P networks," writes Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng. "2009 saw a series of mass malware epidemics that were not caused by, but supported by files that were spread over P2P networks."


"As usual the safest method of protection is to only open and install content from trusted sources, i.e. private BitTorrent tracker sites," writes ZeroPaid's Jared Moya.


More here from Maximum PC ... and more here from PC World.



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