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Gnutella: Files
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In contrast, Gnutella is a distributed searching system with obvious applications for humans and less obvious applications for automatons. Each Gnutella node is free to interpret the query as it wants, allowing Gnutella nodes to give hits in the form of filenames, advertising messages, URLs, graphics, and other arbitrary content. There is no such flexibility in the Freenet system.
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Both Napster and Gnutella allow you to control what files you share. Gnutella takes this a bit further than Napster by ... allowing you to share different types of files, but the basic principles are the same.
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In support of peer-to-peer file sharing, BadBlue supports a protocol called Gnutella. BadBlue is a combination web server, office document transcoding engine and Gnutella servent. These capabilities make BadBlue an easy, effective and secure way to share files, especially in distributed office environments. Because BadBlue is among the first servents to support security, IP restrictions and access control, it can be used in a variety of enterprise file-sharing applications.
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It then modifies the Gnutella.ini file to allow sharing of .vbs files in the Gnutella program folder. In the body of the code, the worm maintains information about its current generation, its current name, and the date and time of infection.
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