David W. Fenton wrote:
On 3 Jan 2007 at 17:11, I wrote:
One possibility is that they do not intend to make money, but are
using the site as a means of slipping in adware, spyware, or malware
past the defenses of otherwise savvy users. Personally, I'd rather get
large files as email, or from the webspace of an individual user, than
through a third party.
To which David responded
That's only a possibility for people using IE6 or before. It's not
even remotely plausible for anyone using any non-IE browser, or IE7.
But I'm not so sure. If the large file were placed into a self
extracting wrapper once posted to the site, so that when one downloaded
what one thought was the file, it came in the wrapper? Maybe not, but I
am too much of a skeptic to not think that something of this type is
happening. I understand that some say anyone who has downloaded a music
file has probably picked up some form of adware , spyware, or malware in
the process.
ns
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