Just curious... How do you set it to zero? I thought it had to be at least
one... I think we have my Mom's set at two or three... Would be higher;
but, there's always at least five-ten downloading from her at a time......
that's anywhere from five to thirty songs taking up bandwidth... :|
Good Luck with Cable! :)
~Lisa
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Subject: Re: * informant * Napster?
> > I agree, and after reading the below link I do not think I want to use
> Napster.
> >
> > http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/napster.htm
> >
> > A quick search showed many exploit/hacker sites for napster and napster
> exploits. Many consist of hiding trojans (exe's) in .mp3 files with a
> program called Wrapster -- then sit back and let people download it.
> >
> >
> > /jay
> The whole point of Wrapster is to distribute other files (ie not MP3s)
over
> napster. Many of these are executables. It works by "wrapping" a file
> (inserting MP3 header & footer). The user then downloads the file and
> unwraps it. If you were on a network, allowing users to use napster would
> create a virus risk, because they might download Wrapster files and unwrap
> them. You can't do it by accident./ All wrapster files generally have
the
> word wrapster in them, and are reported as being encoded at 32KBps or even
> 24. If you just play them in Winamp, all you will hear is gibberish. You
> would have to unwrap them and then run the executable to run any risk of
> virus attack at all.
>
> AFAIK there is no extra risk to being on Napster, ie hackers can't do
> anything to you that they couldn't if you weren't running napster. Also,
> you can configure how many files each user is permitted to download at
once.
> Because I am on 56K I set it to one sometimes, quite often zero. Yes, I
am
> a leech, but I plan to make up for it when I get cable. ;->
>
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