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Is it possible that malware could change p2p save folder such as limewire back in 2008-2010. Say that malware uploaded your personal computer files photos and everything else to the limewire gnutella network. Is that possible. I've heard that malware could make your files available to the hacker not an entire network but this article states different. Is this a little far fetched. http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0016-p2p-file-sharing-risks

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There never were any malware on LimeWire.  It is impossible for a program to change your network share permissions.
Also, there is no such thing as the Tooth Fairy

Santa & Satan have the same letters in their name - and you never see them together.... coincidence ?  I think not.

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There never were any malware on LimeWire.  It is impossible for a program to change your network share permissions.

Also, there is no such thing as the Tooth Fairy

Santa & Satan have the same letters in their name - and you never see them together.... coincidence ?  I think not.

 

Wait just a damn minute here....there is no Tooth Fairy?!?!?!?  Since when? :cry:

 

And how is it I didn't know that Santa and Satan have the same letters in their names?  :angry:

 

This completely screws up my day.  Thanks so much.

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Please do not duplicate questions on multiple threads. I am going to merge this thread with your last one.

 

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Hello,

 

I am going to go with an answer that this would be very uncommon behavior for malware, but it is possible, especially when you start dealing with things like RATs (remote access trojans) where someone may be modifying the computer's settings for whatever purpose. 

 

Can I ask why you are asking this question?  Is it just idle speculation, are you trying to determine how an infection occurred, or something else entirely?

 

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Aryeh Goretsky

 

 

 

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Here is the thing - what does it matter what the malware does?  You wouldn't want it either way, be popped up ads or shared out your hdd..

 

When you try and explain to users that they don't want such software - are you going to tell them that is most likely to pop up some ads, or are you going to describe one of the worst outcomes..  That is what the link you point to is doing..  Doesn't mean that every malware does that, doesn't even mean that there are any known variants that do that.

 

Listen to the possible side effects on drugs, do they just tell you while you might get a tummy ache.. Or to they list off possible side effects tummy ache, bleeding from your anus - thoughts of suicide and death!!!

 

Here is the thing, most malware is written get someone money in some way or the other.  Either you clicking on ads or sending spam -- there is normally monetary gains as the reason for the malware.  If sharing out your computers hdd was the best way for them to make money then prob all of them would do that..

 

You don't want bad software on your machine is the bottom line - yes p2p can be a source of bad software..  Why are we having any further discussion on what said software can or can not do - it can if correctly written do anything you could do on your computer..  And if done correctly in such a manner that you will not find it or even know its doing it, etc..

 

So the message you should take from your link hey don't use p2p - you might start bleeding from your anus and then die..

 

If they said, hey if you use p2p you might get some extra ads for viagra pop up on your screen -- well hey why not if I can get all the movies/music I want and any software I want for free ;)

 

So stuxnet was malware written to specifically target plc's -- so you don't think code could be written to share you hdd?  Using software you already have on your pc - and most likely how you downloaded the hidden code in some game you wanted to play or something..  You think that is just scare tactics??  That would never happen?  Or doesn't nor would anyone ever do such a thing??  If they can make money doing it - then it will be done, if someone paid someone to write such malware.  That is money and it will be done..

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So the message you should take from your link hey don't use p2p - you might start bleeding from your anus and then die..

 

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So THATS where the blood came from ....

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So THATS where the blood came from ....

Aha! Finally, the truth! I suspected it this whole time.....

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Hello,

 

I found the following section in http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0016-p2p-file-sharing-risks:


In addition, security problems within the P2P program could open the door to attacks from hackers. Some malware is designed to change which folders you have designated for sharing, so criminals can access your personal information.

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This is the section you are referring to, correct?

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

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"You think it would be all over the news if that really happened."

It is, pretty much every single day if not every hour or minute there is some new badware out there, or new variant, etc.. So what do you think is worse them sharing out your folder to p2p software or encrypting everything on your hard drive so you can not get to your own files unless you pay their ransom? That happens all the time and in the news all the time!!!

What drives me nuts is every single day there is news about don't open emails if they don't look right, but why are they still using that method to spread their junk?? Because uses still click on ######!!!

 

Think of the nonsense that is used to spread crap..  Your boss Loves You -- yeah better open than.  Oh you got a new invoice and they send it in a zip file, sure better open that right up
 

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Far fetched is CSI zooming in on a surveillance camera, and getting a picture off a reflection in the license plate bolt..  From that 320x160 15fps camera 2 blocks away..

 

Enhance!!

 

Malware having access to your files is farthest thing from far fetched, its FACT..  It runs on your machine it has access to your files - be it shares them out with p2p software X or Y has little to do with the FACT that code running on your machine has access to your files..  And can do whatever it wants with them, share them to the world, their fellow malware buddies or just keep them for themselves -- or encrypt them so you can not get them..

 

What exactly are you looking for in an answer here - that someone agrees with you that its far fetched..  Sorry if they do they are as naive as you seem to be.

 

Farfetched is pretty much everything thing they do on that show scorpion.. Hard drive next to your car speaker wiping them <rolleyes>  That they can walk in to a DC ( in a storage garage for that matter ) and just pull drives where the data is.. Like that data is not striped across a parity set.. etc. etc.. etc.. 

 

This type of stuff is taking information and exaggerating to the ultimate extremes in possibilities.. That malware could share your files is just plain truth.. be it there are any known variants that do that specific thing - I have personally not heard of any.. But its more than possible!!

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Has anyone ever seen a virus embedded in a limewir file where it changes your limewire save folder and adds a bunch of personal documents pictures and other files into your share folder for everyone to download ? I

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First Off, people still use Limeware? Secondly, when Limewire was "big", there were ton of viruses that you could download..

 

Just installed Malware Bytes, Super Anti-Spyware and see how that works.. If still infected, run combofix, and malwarebytes, super antispyware again. 

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Has anyone ever seen...

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You appear to be asking the same question. Please keep them in one thread rather than making multiple posts on the same subject. (Y)

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Hello,

 

Spoke with a co-worker who recalled a worm that installed itself into the %windir%\system32 directory on infected PCs and then added that directory to the list of those shared in "popular P2P" programs.  Going to try and get more detailed information tomorrow.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

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