description-logo Description

This indicates detection of data traffic from a Gnutella application.
Gnutella is a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol. The explosion of P2P programs in the workplace presents new security challenges to corporate networks since the P2P network may be used to facilitate various network-based attacks.

affected-products-logoAffected Products

Any Gnutella-based P2P programs, such as:
Acquisition
AquaLimes
Cabos
Foxy
Gnucleus
gtk-gnutella
iMesh
LimeWire
MLdonkey
Morpheus
morph
m0rph
Mutella
NapShare
Openext
Phex
Qcquisition
Qtella
Xolox
Shareaza

Impact logoImpact

Bandwidth consumption

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device