Deepnet Explorer was a

web browser A web browser is application software for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on ...

created by Deepnet Security for the

Microsoft Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...

platform, first released in 2005. The most recent version is 1.5.3 (BETA 3) which was released October 19, 2006. Developed in Britain, Deepnet Explorer gained early recognition both for its use of anti-

phishing Phishing is a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a fraudulent (e.g., spoofed, fake, or otherwise deceptive) message designed to trick a person into revealing sensitive information to the attacker or to deploy malicious softwar ...

tools and the inclusion of a

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer n ...

facility for

file sharing File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include r ...

, based on the

Gnutella Gnutella is a peer-to-peer network protocol. Founded in 2000, it was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model. In June 2005, Gnutella's population was 1.81 million computer ...

network. The anti-phishing feature, in combination with other additions, led the developers to claim that it had a higher level of security than either

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...

Internet Explorer Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical user interface, graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Microsoft Wind ...

—however, as the underlying rendering engine was still the same as that employed in Internet Explorer, it was suggested that the improved security would fail to address the vulnerabilities found in the rendering engine. The browser has since been discontinued. According to Deepnet Security themselves, it was "the world's first browser with RSS news reader, P2P client integration and phishing alarm."

Notes

References

*Deepnet builds on Explorer's functionality for file sharing. New Media Age erial online July 22, 2004:7-7. Available from: Business Source Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed April 25, 2009 *Deepnet Explorer releases password hashing counter measures. Internet Business News (April 14, 2005): NA. Computer Database. Gale.

External links

Deepnet Explorer Official Site
2005 software Windows web browsers Discontinued web browsers {{Web-stub