Dear glory_dance

You have completely misunderstood the main thrust of my post, I don't believe that vandals, miscreants or anyone else has a right to plant their viruses and Trojans all over the place and wreck other peoples computers. However, I do believe in my (and your) total right to privacy and I will not take part in anything that threatens that.

And I think you misunderstand how P2P networks work, i.e. there is no central computer to administer (and certainly no random assigning of "Turbocharge"), you just have individuals with PCs who can have anything on them.

Take a look at this P2P diagram and explanation:

http://www.kazaa.com/us/help/guide_aboutp2p.htm

So, in such an environment you have to protect yourself because any user on the network can have absolutely anything (worm, Trojan, virus, etc,) on their PC, there is no control or mechanism the moderators can use to keep you (or anybody else) safe.

If you have read my previous posts you will see that I have always said that the internet is now a very dangerous place and that P2P brings those dangers that much closer.

Therefore, if you want to be part of the P2P network then you must take precautions to protect yourself, e.g. anti-virus and firewall apps for starters.

Be safe.




UK Bob