Malware on p2p

It all depends on the malware. Could be a banking Trojan, a bot, etc.

 

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Basically you could get any infection that exists. This includes infections that could steal information from your PC and yes your files could wind up being shared or stolen. In addition, you could totally destroy you OS and need a reinstall. We have seen it many times where people will pick up a PE file infection which corrupts ALL executable files on the PC. And if your PC is on a network with other PC and you have sharing in effect or you simply connect to any other PC, you could spread the infection to that PC too.

 

I cannot answer this. New malware comes out all the time and there are literally hundreds of thousands of infections that already exist. All we can tell you is the same thing that every malware removal forum will tell you, and that is P2P programs are dangerous and strongly not recommended.

 

Isn't that scariest enough?

 

But - how would you know this is the case when you allow a file sharing connection to possibly "Mr. I'vegotallthehotestmusictoshare" who doesn't know he's infected/ a scriptkiddie whose fun is infecting pc's/ a cybercriminal syndicate trolling for additional machines to add to their botnet?

 

It is possible. I'm looking for the article that I read within the hour about malware copying files into a Public shared folder(Pictures) that was then uploaded by the malware.

 

*It might have been this thread:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...s-denied/823c44c8-f66e-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5

If you downloaded anything that contained malware in the file, it doesn't matter how you downloaded it, the malware would be there... to do what it's designed to do; including changing settings and permissions, and "phoning home".

Malware & Botnets

Conclusion: The risks involved with p2p are too high.