What happened to Earth Station 5 (P2P)

[RJARRRPCGP]

I noticed that it's web site is no longer existant at earthstation5.com and es5.com!

I have been checking to see if that was a promising P2P network.

Was Earth Station 5 shut down, even if likely not by the RIAA or MPAA?

[smcd]

search google for "earth station 5 trojan" or "earth station 5 backdoor"...
I'd sure as hell never use it.

[RJARRRPCGP]

What is your problem? Cut it out!

[smcd]

My 'problem' is p2p sucks, especially when it has a 'backdoor' to allow them to delete files at will by sending a special packet to the client.

[Jaz]

I've heard enough already - you two stop bitching!

[RJARRRPCGP]

I was wondering, because this P2P was promising. I dunno now!

I don't appreciate the fact that there don't appear to be a web site anymore!

[smcd]

Depending on what you're looking for, Shareaza isn't too bad or DC++ etc.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Their web site was taken down with no warning! WTB is this?

I thought they were better than this!

[Clements]

Websites expire everyday, and there are over 100 superior P2P apps than this which have never included dubious code in the past. I fail to see why you care deeply about this obscure app.

[RJARRRPCGP]

I was just curious, because I kept on checking for a newer version last year.

[smcd]

Didn't mean to sound like a jerk earlier, just don't always state things in as nice a manner as I probably should ;)

[tye stik]

"In September 2003 the program became the target of a controversy, as malicious code was uncovered in ES5. By sending a specially formed packet, the attacker could delete any file with a known path on the target computer. It has been alleged that it was created by anti-piracy companies to lure people into using their program, exposing their copyrighted files and then deleting them. The authors denied the allegations, argued that the function was retained from older builds, where it was used to control ES5 servers, and said they have fixed the problem."

It seems like the backdoor has been closed.

[RJARRRPCGP]

This sucks! I remembered a while ago, the web site suddenly became corrupt. It then suddenly displayed:

Not Found

The requested URL '/' was not found on this server.

or smililar.

Then a while later when I checked it, the domain name had expired and thus was a redirect to a domain name hosting page!