Foxy (P2P)
Foxy is a Chinese P2P software by Vastel Technology Ltd. Inc.(位思科技有限公司) popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. This software was treated as trojan in antivirus software Norton Antivirus or AVG for its file sharing. There may also be a malware Foxy. In Taiwan and Hong Kong news report of secret government documents carelessly shared through the share folder or setting of the software raised concern.[1][2]
Foxy P2P's Gnutella(2) Origins
Foxy has been known to be based on the gnutella and G2 architecture. Foxy uses GWCs[3] as bootstrap method for connecting its clients initially to the Foxy network. The three foxy bootstrapping servers are GWebCaches with a modified Jums-Web-Cache Java engine: FOXY 1, FOXY 2, and FOXY 3. There is another GWC Beacon Cache Core 2 which is independent of the three. Foxy is known to use the Gnutella2 architecture for its network, while using a modified GnucDNA core for its actual network management system.
Privacy
It is unable to confirm the file originator. When a foxy client searches for a file, other foxy clients reply with a list of IPs who have the file. The IPs may or may not be the file originator, and there is no indication on which IP is the file originator, a relay, or a replica.[4]
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