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Originally Posted by JeanninePC99
Them:[/b] Blah, blah, blah. If you can control bittorrent's bandwidth go for it. I'm not a big fan of bittorent because I believe it installs bundled spyware, but that's just my opinion.
Booo! How can they be so dumb?!?
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I don't think it's that dumb, bittorrent can be used as a vector for spyware as much as any other file transfer method.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1828633,00.asp
which links to here:
http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2005/06...d-and-175.html
Increasingly spyware companies are modifying bittorrent content to include spyware. Realize that bittorrent users are mostly not like the ones here who may only download straight media content (although I see a lot of comments from people who download software and copywritten content as well.) And that the average user isn't savvy enough to realize that something is wrong when you download a tv show and a eula for spyware shows up when you 'install' it.
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