First peer-to-peer virus hits
FILE-SWAPPING ON THE Internet hit a sour note Tuesday with the appearance of a virus that attacks users of the Gnutella file-sharing service, and several anti-virus vendors say it is the first virus to affect peer-to-peer communications.
Named W32/Gnuman.worm, or by the alias Mandragore, the malicious file poses as an ordinary, requested media file. This masked file, however, is actually an .exe file that infects a user's computer once the program is run, according to statements from a variety of anti-virus software vendors.
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