'Star Wars' worm in P2P

Tell any file-sharers at your house to beware the "Star Wars" worm. "Some downloaders hoping to snare free Star Wars games are unwittingly finding themselves installing the worm P2Load.A that spreads on P2P networks using the file-sharing programs Shareza and iMesh," Internet News reports. What it does is copy itself as a ".exe" file into the "Shared" media directory that, for example, the iMesh software creates on your hard drive. Then the worm configures your browser so that, if you try to go to Google.com, you're redirected to a fake Google page that returns search results that include sponsored links that make the page's creators money when you click to those pages. P2Load also spoofs other popular Web sites. It's the kind of capability that tricks people into going to sites that automatically upload Trojan or hijacking code that takes over their PCs.