But obstacles must be overcome before file sharing becomes a truly viable business model.
Security is a major concern.
Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. Parker believes handling the public relations aspect of such an attack could potentially be a bigger problem than handling the virus itself. But programmers and developers don't believe that viruses will ever be much of a security risk. Instead, they point to the changing uses of port 80. One of tens of thousands of connection points on a computer that's connected to the Internet, port 80 is traditionally used only for Web traffic.