Foxy (P2P)

Foxy is a traditional Chinese P2P software by Foxy Media, Inc.(景昌資訊科技股份有限公司) popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. This software was treated as trojan in antivirus softwares 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. [ [http://www.takungpao.com.hk/news/07/04/25/TM-726864.htm] ] [ [http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/controlled-applications/foxyp2p.html Foxy P2P - File sharing application - Sophos security analysis] .]

Foxy P2P's Gnutella(1/2) Origins

Foxy has been known to be based on the Gnutella 1 and 2 architecture. Foxy uses the [http://gnucleus.com/gwebcache/newgwc.html Gnutella Bootstrapping method] for connecting its clients initially to the Foxy network. The three foxy bootstrapping servers are GWebCaches with a modified [http://www1.mager.org/GWebCache/ Jums-Web-Cache] Java engine: [http://www.gofoxy.net/gwc/cgi-bin/fc?client=FOXY&version=1.1.1.6&net=foxy&get=1&ping=1 FOXY 1] , [http://gwc.gofoxy.net:2108/gwc/cgi-bin/fc?client=FOXY&version=1.1.1.6&net=foxy&get=1&ping=1 FOXY 2] , and [http://gwc.iblinx.com:2108/gwc/cgi-bin/fc?client=FOXY&version=1.1.1.6&net=foxy&get=1&ping=1 FOXY 3] . Foxy is known to use the Gnutella2 architecture for its network, while using a modified [http://gnucleus.com/GnucDNA/ GnucDNA] for its actual network management system core.

References

External links

[http://www1.mager.org/GWebCache/ Jums-Web-Cache]
*zh icon [http://tw.gofoxy.net FOXY多媒體娛樂搜尋平台]
*zh icon [http://evchk.wikia.com/wiki/Foxy Foxy] at the Hong Kong Encyclopedia at Wikia