Firm installs adware in P2P files.

[techs]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12...adware_threat/

Not content with poisoning P2P networks with fake music files, an ally of the big media companies has decided to lob pop-ups and adware at users, according to research done by reporters at PC World.

Overpeer grabbed headlines in 2002 for its work infecting P2P networks with garbled music at the behest of some major music labels. It now looks like the company - a subsidiary of Loudeye - is sending out contaminated files that launch numerous ad-filled browser windows and that try to take over a user's homepage. Loudeye is standing by the practice, saying P2P users are getting what they deserve.

[TechZ]

Yeah but when it spills over to other innocent users, somehow, then what happens. At the very least, its gonna create tech support jobs, but wait ! those are going abroad too, so its helping poor countries! So kind.

WMA files can now be infected too, read the Security thread I posted earlier.
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=68000

[NooNoo]

And this is news because?

[techs]

And this is news because?

It's new?

[Tekboy]

It isn't new at all. I have been finding this garbage on every P2P infested machine (whatever flavor of "file sharing") I have encountered for the last couple of years.

I still say, to this day, that if someone tells me they are an internet marketer, I am likely to punch them, unless I am working on their machine. If I am fixing their computer, I will milk the job for all I can get.

Those people disgust me. Two wrongs do NOT make a right, and end users are not getting "what they deserve". They are getting screwed.

[cookin chef]

Just any kind of strategy to annoy or deter people from using P2P.

[TechZ]

they find and alternative, just like copy-protection, one can think of it, one will find another way.