METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF A PAIR FILE SHARING SOFTWARE THAT OPERATES ON A TARGET COMPUTER AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF ONE OR MORE PAIR FILE SHARING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS THAT OPERATES ON A TARGET COMPUTER

摘要

method and system for detecting peer-to-peer network software, system for detecting one or more peer-to-peer network software applications, and method and system for detecting peer-to-peer network participation. The present invention relates to a system and method for detecting peer-to-peer networking software that operates on a target computer. A target file is created and placed in one or more folders on the target computer. A search is sent over a peer-to-peer network to the target file. peer-to-peer networking software is detected operating on the target computer according to the search results.