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January 24th, 2006

Airhead

Join Date: October 18th, 2004

Location: Perth, Australia

Posts: 897

Yes, there are many fake & infected files around these days. It's not LW doing it

Many are spam, shared simply to sabotage p2p. Some contain more malicious malware & why these jerks spread virii around...good question. See here for virus probs on network:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=41432

See also:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...164#post104164

And:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=41870

All the more reason to be really careful with what you download & to learn how to recognise crap

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