Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File-Sharing Risks

To share files, like games and music, through a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, you download software that connects your computer to other computers running the same software – sometimes giving access to millions of computers at a time. This has a number of risks. Read More FTC Online Security
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