Also do not download!!

antihedron · #11 (**permalink**) July 25th, 2002

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Originally posted by DeReK
This is an attack,

Once these file sizes start changing, they are going to be everywere,

Or is this adware by XoloX........ It is about money ??

I dont think it is adware because it comes up under other Gnutella servants as well.

#12 (**permalink**) July 27th, 2002

See my post in this thread:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=13920

antihedron · #13 (**permalink**) July 27th, 2002

It comes up under other Guntells clients as well.

Every one iv'e tried to be specific. Note I hade to turn off all filtering to see them though.

#14 (**permalink**) July 28th, 2002

you can usually uninstall these in the progs configuration.
i did.

antihedron · #15 (**permalink**) July 28th, 2002

Some people were having troble with that. Note I never bothered to get myself infected.

antihedron · #16 (**permalink**) July 29th, 2002

I usually go by about 1M for each minute of mp3

#17 (**permalink**) August 1st, 2002

Those files:

!!!(something).zip
(Your Exact Search Query).asf

Etc.

They are gnutella viruses. When executed, they reside on your PC and use you gnutella client software to respond to incoming search queries (from other users). The virus creates the file with the appropriate name contain a copy of itself and maybe some "padding" to vary the size and will have a name ressembling the file you are searching for.

Check www.antivirus.com and search for "gnutella" or ".zip" or ".asf" and read the results.