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ALSO CALLED: Peer-to-Peer Networks, Peer-to-Peer Communication, Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, P2P DEFINITION: Gnutella is a system in which individuals can exchange files over the Internet directly without going through a Web site in an arrangement sometimes described as peer-to-peer (here meaning "person-to-person"). Like Napster and similar Web sites, Gnutella is often used as a way to download music files from or share them with other Internet users and has been an object of great concern for the music … Definition continues below.
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Forrester Total Economic Impact Study on IPS sponsored by McAfee, Inc. ANALYST REPORT: Network--Stop threats before they happen. This June 2009 study examines the financial impact and potential return on investment (ROI) for McAfee Network Security Platform intrusion prevention system (formerly McAfee IntruShield®), using Adena Health System as a case study. Posted: 01 Sep 2009 \| Published: 01 Sep 2009 TOPICS: ARP \| Denial of Service Attacks \| Intrusion Prevention \| Intrusion Prevention Systems \| Malware \| Network Security \| Peer-to-Peer Architectures \| Peer-to-Peer Networking \| Phishing \| Security Spending \| Security Threats

Application Discovery Tool sponsored by Sophos Inc. TRIAL SOFTWARE: With the Sophos Application Discovery Tool, you can quickly perform a scan and find the applications installed on your network, both legitimate and unwanted. The tool can be run without uninstalling or deactivating your current anti-virus software. Posted: 16 Apr 2009 \| Published: 16 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Access Control \| Application Monitoring \| Messaging Protocols \| Messaging Security \| Network Security \| Network Security Software \| Peer-to-Peer Networking \| Security Management

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PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING DEFINITION (continued): … publishing industry. Unlike Napster, Gnutella is not a Web site, but an arrangement in which you can see the files of a small number of other Gnutella users at a time, and they in turn can see the files of others, in a kind of daisy-chain effect. Gnutella also allows you to download any file type, whereas Napster is limited to MP3 music files.After installing and launching Gnutella, a user's computer (node) becomes both a client and a server in the network (which is called GnutellaNet) and is able to share files that other Gnutella users have set up to make available. Gnutella, whose name pays …
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