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. The software was treated as a

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by antivirus software

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and AVG for its file sharing capability. There may also be a malware Foxy. In Taiwan and Hong Kong news reports of secret government documents carelessly shared through the share folder or setting of the software raised concerns. The concerns begin to arise when online porn clips were wirespraded via Foxy.

Foxy P2P's Gnutella(2) Origins

Foxy has been known to be based on the gnutella and G2 architecture. Foxy uses Gnutella Web Cache as bootstrap method for connecting its clients initially to the Foxy network. The three foxy bootstrapping servers are GWebCaches with a modifie
Jums-Web-Cache
Java engine
FOXY 1FOXY 2
an
FOXY 3
There is another GW
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

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core for its actual network management system.

Privacy

Foxy is unable to confirm the file originator: when a foxy client searches for a file, other clients can reply with a list of IPs who have the file. These IPs may or may not be the file originator, and there is no indication of which IP is the file originator, which one's a relay, and which is a replica.Foxy: the good, the bad, and the ugly
University of Hong Kong (2008)

References

External links

Jums-Web-Cache

Foxy official website
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