P2P security
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P2P security
I have a question about p2p security from a user download perspective. From reading the website, it seems that when I request a p2p file, it is first uploaded to the server, and then downloaded to my computer. My question is: At any time during this process, especially while the p2p file resides on the server, is it scanned for viruses and/or spyware? Thank you for your help.
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Re: P2P security
Hi Jatar,
At the moment there is no antivirus scanning in place. If you were going to scan the downloaded files yourself you should turn off the option to automatically unzip the decks after download, then run your AV scan on the file wherever you have saved it to.
Having said this, the program reads the contents of the zip files out for itself (rather than executing a zip utility which could activate some malicious code), and it also packs the zip files at the sharer's end, only choosing the appropriate image and XML files. Personally I think this makes the risk of a virus getting accidentally transferred via the exchange effectively zero. Of course, if someone was trying to maliciously exploit the P2P service by creating booby-trapped files that would be different, but thankfully that has never become an issue.
Cheers,
Richard
At the moment there is no antivirus scanning in place. If you were going to scan the downloaded files yourself you should turn off the option to automatically unzip the decks after download, then run your AV scan on the file wherever you have saved it to.
Having said this, the program reads the contents of the zip files out for itself (rather than executing a zip utility which could activate some malicious code), and it also packs the zip files at the sharer's end, only choosing the appropriate image and XML files. Personally I think this makes the risk of a virus getting accidentally transferred via the exchange effectively zero. Of course, if someone was trying to maliciously exploit the P2P service by creating booby-trapped files that would be different, but thankfully that has never become an issue.
Cheers,
Richard