Patent ID: 8892665

Claim:
A system, comprising: a processor configured to: monitor a network traffic from a first client to determine whether the first client is executing a peer-to-peer application; and generate a network traffic that emulates peer-to-peer network traffic sent from the peer-to-peer application executing on the first client to a second client after detecting an unknown network traffic sent from the first client to the second client, wherein the generating of the network traffic that emulates peer-to-peer network traffic comprises: send, to the second client, the emulated peer-to-peer network traffic identifying non-existent peers or send, to the second client, the emulated peer-to-peer network traffic indicating that no peers have a desired file requested via the peer-to-peer application, wherein the emulated peer-to-peer network traffic identifying the non-existent peers indicates that the emulated peer-to-peer network traffic originated from a peer that does not exist; and in the event that one of the non-existent peers is being contacted, emulate a peer-to-peer traffic response including dummy data; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.