NP - Gnutella Clients

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Richard Fiero <rfiero at pophost.com>
>
>Gnucleus stable is crap. The development version does work but install 
>GnucDNA in systemroot and crash under Win2000 but works nicely under XP.
>
>A firewall, anti-virus and  a spyware scanner are essential.
>
>The other Gnutella clients are more problematic.

I'm sorry if continuing this thread here bothers y'all.  I'm hoping that I'm 
not the only one who could benefit from this info, and maybe others beside 
Richard Fiero would want to throw in their 2 cents in reply...

Question #1:  The Gnutella.com site doesn't list GnucDNA as a client, nor is 
it included in its forums list.  they are listed as  BearShare, Gnucleus, 
Morpheus, Swapper, XoloX Ultra, LimeWire, and  Phex.
Why would that be?  I'm not at all versed in these things as you can 
probably tell...

Question #2:  Also, it seems that some of these clients above install 
spyware and pop-up crap into your machine when you install them.  Are some 
"cleaner" than others?

Question #3:  I did find the GnucDNA site, which states:

"GnucDNA is a powerful component for building P2P applications. It provides 
developers with a common layer to create their own Gnutella client or 
network. As a separate component, GnucDNA can be updated independently of 
the client, passing down improvements to the applications already using it."

And I also found this description:

"GnucDNA is a COM object that client programs can use to interact with P2P 
networks like Gnutella or Gnutella2."

So I assume this means that GnucDNA isn't exactly a program that a non-geek 
like me can just download, install, and run over the web to find media 
content, right?  I'm guessing it somehow works with the clients listed 
above, which is why you say it gets installed in systemroot.  But, since 
Richard says that "The other Gnutella clients are more problematic," that 
implies to me that my statements above are incorrect   :(

I'm probably playing with fire at my present level of incompetence with this 
stuff (but at least I've got firewall, anti-virus & spyware scanners) ...

If anyone would like to give me a clue off-list I'd be happy to hear it.

Thanks for your patience,
Ghetta

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