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What is ShareZilla?

ShareZilla is a quick, cheap, and easy way to promote your products, services and web-sites across the latest and greatest thing on the Internet: Gnutella. ShareZilla intercepts every Gnutella search that comes across its network horizon and re-transmits an ad back to the person originating the request. In addition, ShareZilla can transmit an MP3 file (if that's what the user is requesting), or it can transmit a Movie, Text, HTML, VS, etc.

When the search originator sends out a request like:
"Strawberry Rhubarb Pie"
ShareZilla will return a string like this:
"WWW.FlatPlanet.Net - Strawberry Rhubarb Pie.mp3"

This is very useful if you're on the web to make money. If you're not on the web to make money, this is just a really neat way of finding out about the latest commercial press release about Strawberry Rhubarb Pie.

What is Stealth Mode?

While running in stealth mode ShareZilla responds to search requests with a advertisement string, instead of a file. Since the viewer of the ad does not need to download any files (or viruses) to their system to get your ad across, ShareZilla takes the opportunity to scramble its home IP address and other identifiying data that would otherwise be necessary to download a file, or find out who and where you are.

Since the response to the search does not include any return address, ShareZilla uses Gnutella Net's natural anonimity to keep your home IP address from being discovered. This way you don't have to wory about any number of hack attacks, which can only be done once the hacker knows your home IP.

Sorry www.flatplanet.net

flatplanet.net wrote a program which spams gnutella. When you perform a search for anything, the flatplanet program returns half a dozen results saying things like F.L.A.T.P.L.A.N.E.T.N.E.T. - [word you searched for here]. They sell the software that they use so that anyone can spam gnutella. Some clients have spam filters and are set to filter out flatplanet by default.

Wanna know why gnutells gone toasty? Crap like This.

IMO the RIAA Doesn't need to do a thing to Gnutella. The spammers will surely render it useless. Look here for an example of what's to come.

Actually, I just hopped onto Gnutella for the first time tonight and ran into the problem with your name popping up everywhere. I thought you were just an annoying marketer since I don't get the kiddie porn bit as a result. Searching for "nonsense" gets me back " e-mail matt@steinhoff.net for nonsense" instead of a result for kiddie porn. Seems like you'd be getting even more e-mail harrasment if this is pointing at you for everything.

On a related note, you might want to contact the makers of ShareZilla. They claim to be selling software that intercepts Gnutella requests and responds with ads related to the search requests. Any search result I get back includes the above URL for their website. This product seems vile and frighteningly abusive enough in its own right, but it may be the tool that the scum ruining your name may be using. You may wish to inquire with them about that.

To be honest, though, I think Gnutella needs to be reworked or replaced if something like this or what happened to you can go on there. It sickens me to see this being done.

Have you considered trying to nail the bastitch under stalking or harrasment laws? How about libel or defamation if people searching for illicit materials are pointed your way? This jerk has to breaking several laws doing this. Forget civil litigation -- file criminal charges.