(1) A group of computers whereby each one can communicate with any other. See peer-to-peer network. (2) A network of computers that share the workload. A peer-to-peer network is a decentralized ...

File sharing has new rival: a 21-year-old offers instruction on using Google's search engine to find music files. Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News. Based in New York, ...

As Napster searches for a legal way to stay in business, two L.A. companies are finding legitimate applications for the popular technology. Blue Falcon Networks and Uprizer Inc. have been using the ...

Antivirus vendor McAfee is working on techniques designed to combat viruses engineered to spread through peer-to-peer applications such as the popular MP3 file sharing tools Napster and Gnutella. Peer ...

Though not all peer-to-peer applications are evil, they are frequently recreational in nature. As such, they tend to generate network traffic that businesses often like to limit, usually by means of ...

The concept behind peer-to-peer computing is relatively simple and not all that new. Instead of using big, expensive servers to crunch numbers and pricey storage networks to hold data, companies can ...

A new computer worm infected thousands of Linux-based Web servers last week and used them to create a peer-to-peer network with the potential to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.

A high-profile Internet phone group plans to use a little bit of Napster technology to harness PC networks to make free phone calls. The Free World Dialup project, for now being run under the auspices ...

Dear Action Line: Have you heard anything about Peer-to-peer (P2P) computer file-sharing applications causing computer problems? — M.H., Tulsa. US-CERT, the ...

A new peer-to-peer botnet named Panchan appeared in the wild around March 2022, targeting Linux servers in the education sector to mine cryptocurrency. Panchan is empowered with SSH worm functions ...