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A Study of Malware in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Overview Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks continue to be popular means of trading content. However, very little protection is in place to make sure that the les exchanged in these networks are not malicious, making them an ideal medium for spreading malware. The paper instruments two different open source P2P networks, Limewire and OpenFT, to examine the prevalence of malware in P2P networks. The results from over a month of data show that 68% of all downloadable responses in Limewire containing archives and executables contain malware. The corresponding number for OpenFT is 3%. Also, most infections are from a very small number of distinct malware. In particular, in Limewire, the top three most prevalent malware account for 99% of all the malicious responses.

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Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Oct 22, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Spyware, Network Security

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