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Originally Posted by eric93se Nah, I was just kidding, I explained it to him, he was just a little concerned that he might be vulnerable to a trojan or something.
Has anyone heard of distributed computing getting exploited/attacked? |
Nope ....
The upload/download is initiated completely by the client, and the data (Work Unit) sent/received is not executable anyway. Once the data has been sent/received the connection is completely closed.
FAH is
not running any sort of communications server on your machine, until you finish a work unit/request a new one. Once it's sent/received all comms are shut down again.
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