1.5 billion searches take place on P2P (peer to peer) networks daily compared with 180 million on Google, and that a growing number of the searches are being done for malicious purposes. There is an abundance of classified government and military documents as well as corporate data freely available on P2P networks, including a full diagram of the Pentagon’s secret backbone network infrastructure. But how do we mitigate against confidential data loss from P2P networks?

Towards the end of May, the AVG Security Suite started spewing fake hits to websites across the web which appear as web stats in your web analytics reports. Given there are approximately 20 million users of the new AVG suite, this amounts to a very large amount of fake traffic. Can anything be done, and how can you identify what is real and what is not?