[LordKano]

I have to think a lot of people left it behind because of all of the malware that was masquerading as something else.

[BurningCycles]

Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right ?

Downloading and running executable files from file sharing networks seems like asking for trouble no matter what the network is.

[cesarb]

> Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right?

From what I recall of the time when these networks were popular, that wasn't the case; there was some way to make Windows Media Player download malicious executable files when playing a video file.