> IIRC some virii or trojan horses tried to fetch updates from web pages, > usually on free hosting services. And as soon as they are detected, the > web account is closed and the dangerous files removed, so this does not > look like a very efficient chanel. > > What would happen if such a nasty piece of code used some P2P protocol > to update itself? e.g. Gnutella or eDonkey? Has anybody seen such a > "feature"? Kazaa does something like this. Updates are thrown into the file sharing miasma and can and will be downloaded in chunks from a large (!)number of different unqualified systems by any system which is being upgraded. Mark Robinson
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