Really not sure which area this belongs. A few spreadsheets were shared and I have spent the past 2 days installing every client I can find and have searched by document name, topic, owner, keyword etc and have not received one hit on documents.

A rather larger company is telling me they exist on the P2P network as well as many others. They are several years old but I still would like to know what is out there before I right it off as a non-issue. They searched and found hundreds according to them and they actaully read me some of the content so I know they are mine. They will not reveal what client they were using but they did say they were on the gnutella network.

Before I pay for them to disclose all the files they found, is there a way I can search across the entire p2P network in the US and try to see what is out there and how many people have it?

I'm not opposed to paying for the software if there is a tool out there that will do the job. I have tried the paid version of most of the clients and still no luck.

Help is much appreciated.

Your post sounds like a fairy tale to me,.....but,....................you can't get them back. Once the Genies out of the bottle it's too late.

If someone's personal information has been compromised, you need to do whats necessary to secure their info.,,?...?...?....

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If the files are on Gnutella, you should be able to find them with every Gnutealla software out of the market. But you can only search, find and download them, but never take them out of the network again...

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Thanks for the replies, I'm not expecting to get the documents back (that would be to nice), I would just like to know if its 3 documents or 200 like the company says and be able to look at the documents to determine if any of them have that would have helped my competitors.

I tried searching on the titles of the documents and get 0 results. Is there a better client for document searches?

You should ask the company for a proof: Ask them to give you the Magnet link for one specific of the files in order to check if it's really what you are searching for. Also, locate the original file names. Since LW (and with it the biggest part of the G1 network) does not support searching by hash, you will have to use specific keywords (for example your name inside the metadata).
Try out Phex for the currently most up-to-date G1 implementation, or Shareaza if you want to search Gnutella2 (G2) and ed2k, too.

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