Xunlei

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Xunlei (迅雷xùnlei in German Donner ) is a company in the Chinese special economic zone of Shenzhen . It operates a peer-to-peer - sharing service, which is mainly used in mainland China and is offered in Chinese. Xunlei's programs are Thunder (迅雷) and the more recent development Web Thunder .

The company also offers download acceleration services that have been downloaded and installed by more than 80 million users. Xunlei's homepage has over 50 million hits every day.

In January 2007, Google acquired a 4% stake in the company for $ 5 million.

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Xunlei uses P2P techniques to speed up downloads. By default, it examines all files on the computer and offers them for download via the Xunlei network.

The program's standard search page sends its users to websites that contain viruses and Trojans . Xunlei itself also installs files that many virus scanners accept as a threat.

Xunlei is cross-financed with advertising and pop-ups ( adware ). Advertising can be switched off.

Uninstalling does not remove all files. In particular, add-ons in browsers are not deleted.

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  1. ↑ Katie Fehrenbacher: Google to Invest in Chinese P2P Startup Xunlei? (English) . In: GigaOM . December 7, 2006. Accessed May 31, 2007.
  2. ↑ Wang Xu: Google to buy stake in Xunlei . In: China Daily . January 4, 2007. Accessed May 31, 2007.
  3. ^ David Barboza: Google Acquires Stake in Chinese Web Site . January 5, 2007. Retrieved March 16, 2008.
  4. ↑ "ugmbbc": Beware! Your files are being stolen by Xunlei! ( Chinese ) In: Graphical Technological Analysis . cnBeta.COM. February 3, 2008. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  5. ↑ Report on spyware files of Xunlei XunLeiBHO_Now.dll ( Memento from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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