Petteri Pyyny
21 May 2002 14:32
Phew, yet another KaZaA-related article for this week.. Getting hectic... Anyway, it appears that world's first KaZaA-targeted worm has been found.
The small worm poses itself as a pirated software/movie/track and if user downloads it and tries to open the file, it creates tons of replicas of itself in users harddrive, with various tempting names and finally sets the directory as one of the KaZaA's shared directories, allowing other network users to find and download the files as well.
Worm can also infect other Fasttrack-based clients, including Grokster and extremely unofficial KaZaA Lite.