Originally Posted by Gimmerz
Hi Im really new to the P2P thing and have downloaded a file which was supposed to be a tutorial for something im working on. When it download i opened it and found there were around 30 zipped folders (not called zipped they were winRAR or something) Ive used tose files (and the extraction wizard) before but because there were so many to open this time and it wasnt what I had expected I decided to leave them alon and deleted them. However I did also notice that there was an icon for "System Information" within the downloaded folder. This had all of me systems info contained in it like physical mem,processor and the list goes on.
I was suprised to see it and a little worried. What does it mean. Ive never seen that happen when downloading from P2P site.
My machine is working fine but Im concerned that there may have been a comprimise in my security... what do you think?
Help!!!
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Hi Gimmerz
Please don't post unrelated questions in someone else's thread
-- I do not use P2P sites or software-- because:
1) most of it's uses are not legal
2) I see a LOT of people coming here to get the viruses/spyware they have gotten
from those sites removed.
WinRar is a perfectly legit file management application-- somewhat like Winzip... I do use thatt-- if you downloaded stuff that is zipped by Winrar-- it would need to be unzipped, of course.
there is some risk involve anytime you open files-- but many antivirus apps can scan inside zipped files without opening them. Right-click each folder... scan with AVG /Norton/ whatever AV you use. let it run.
this will
not 100% guarantee safety-- but it's better than not doing anything
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