EZ Booster?

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Originally Posted by respawn40

And Tanuki, to answer your question, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that what these programs attempt to do is change some registry settings so that you get a slightly overall faster boost in speed.

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Thanks respawn40. They popped up in AceT's 0day section. To be on the safe side I disabled them. Even if they are not malware of any kind I doubt they do anything useful. Registry settings are no magic, and only by magic you can speed up bittorrent searches. :-D

good for nothing.

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Originally Posted by yakz091

good for nothing.

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Perhaps even dangerous. Maybe I am paranoid, but with p2p one better is, but I was thinking what else might be behind those programs. There is an EZ Booster for almost every client on every p2p network, not only bittorrent. Do they really have enough paying customers to make profit? P2p users paying for a program to enhance their clients? Come on, the probably don't even make enough money to pay for their website.

I wonder if this could be a trojan from the MAFIAA. It could be possible that it circumvents peerguardian. Or it could 'inject' peer addresses to the ones the client gets from its tracker, allowing to gather data from private tracker communities. With a plugin like this there are all kinds of nasties, which are possible.

In that case it is no wonder that the program does not contain noticeable ad- or other malware.