Overpeer shut down.

[mdvaldosta]

Good news for P2P'ers (peer to peer file sharing). For those not familiar with Overpeer, it's the company responsible for giving you fake and corrupted mp3 and movie files on popular file sharing networks like KaZaA. Ever download the latest popular hit single, only to find out that right when it get's good you get a bunch of annoying beeps? Yea, drove me crazy too.

Companies like this filled file-swapping networks with false versions of songs, hoping that file-swappers will download the fake files and log off in frustration - and it worked. I stopped using KaZaA because of it.

Fortunately for file sharers, P2P networks have grown to recognize this threat and have placed measures to reduce or eliminate corrupted files - either through advanced software or rating systems where users would highly rate the good stuff.

This news comes in the wake of Overpeers declining revenue through all of 2005 and the ineffectiveness caused by the latest strategies of the P2P networks. Rumor is Overpeer lost it's largest client, putting a final nail in the coffin.

 

[dt3]

Sweetness, I hated that shit!!!

 

[Haus]

i dont find to many corrupted files on limewire. i got a couple trojans and shit but mcafee caught them before any damage took place. i notice that if you ever see a file thats like 851.7 KB. thats a trojan. dont download a file of that size.

 

[lemon]

whats wrong with the 851.7 kb sized file?

 

[Haus]

its a virus called W32/Alcan.worm!p2p most likely. i have the screen shot if you would like to see the popup mcafee warned me about

http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/content/v_133690.htm
so dont download any file on there thats 851.7 KB cause most likely its that virus.

all that file will give you is a setup icon and you click on that to do the "setup" of your program and boom you got a virus

 

[Bongo264]

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

Try this blocks most of that bad stuff anyway

 

[lemon]

PeerGuardian 2 is Open Source, meaning the program code is available online for anyone who wants it. Not only does this allow you to make modifications or even branch off into your own project, but it encourages peer review of the code making sure any bugs are eliminated swiftly. Because PeerGuardian 2 is Open Source, you can rest assured there are no backdoors or spyware included.

well, linux almost had a backdoor, but it got caught [barely] in time. so im not sure this is very good for a valid statement. :dunno

open source isnt bad. its the people that modify it who may be. not all who modify code are bad, but some apples are not as they appear.

nothing against open source, but i think the open source crowd's main licensce needs some work.

 

[mdvaldosta]

No, the license is what makes open source open. Open source means it's, well open. Everything is out there exposed, so of course that does make for a greater security risk but on the otherhand often you have thousands of coders going through the code making it more efficient and more secure.

 

[lemon]

be as that as you say may be, thats just more coders coding to possibly make backdoors and introduce other malicious code into well, the code :dunno


overall, i think open source is good for the technology community, but there is still some work to be done.

 

[mdvaldosta]

lol your paranoid dude.

 

[lemon]

no, im just cautious...











or is that a synonym

 

[Amadildoslim]

lol your paranoid dude.

FROM THE SITE OWNER TO LEMON

yeah but is he paranoid enough.

 

[elluko]

That happens all the time with Kazaa