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BitTorrent DNA Vulnerable to Remote Hijack

A recent reports suggests that the BitTorrent DNA, which is bundled with the mainline client, is an “exploitable” version of uTorrent without the user interface. It is suggested that it is possible for any websites to offload content to the btdna.exe, without the user’s consent.

bittorrent dnaBitTorrent DNA is used for p2p streaming of online videos. It works like this; the user who wants to watch a stream has to install the BitTorrent DNA application, which is also bundled with the BitTorrent mainline client. When the user plays a BitTorrent accelerated stream it will not only download data, but also upload it to other people who are watching the same stream, similar to a regular BitTorrent download.

It turns out that the DNA application is almost identical to uTorrent. “All of the resources are there, dialogs, icons, etc. It is a full blown µTorrent client that just doesn’t display it’s User Interface” writes Wefixedtheglitch, who reverse engineered the application.

The algorithm has changed a bit of course. Pieces are no longer picked at random because this doesn’t work for streaming, so it has to start with getting the first bits, first. Another difference between uTorrent and DNA is that the latter has a built in webserver. This server is used to stream media from localhost or 127.0.0.1, but also introduces some vulnerabilities.

Wefixedtheglitch reports: “It is not impossible for ANY website to hijack and offload content onto your “btdna.exe” process. I consider this risk as “HIGH” and do not recommend users to have the “btdna.exe” software installed on their systems due to these risks, especially if your ISP limits/charges you for bandwidth overages.” This claim was backed up by an additional researcher upon TorrentFreak’s request.

This report contradicts an earlier statement from BitTorrent Inc. CEO Ashwin Navin, who told TorrentFreak: “BitTorrent DNA only accelerates content that a user clicks on. It does not anticipate user wants, or pre-load a user’s PC with content they did not explicitly ask for (via an HTTP request from a webpage).”

One thing is for sure, BitTorrent DNA isn’t perfect yet. Several users reported that it slows down their web-browsers, with Linksys router owners being particularly affected. We have contacted the BitTorrent team about this slowdown issue before and they told us that they are working on a fix. I have no doubt that they will also address the security issues if there are any, but for now I think it is better to uninstall the application when you don’t need it.

DNA automatically starts with Windows, and has to be uninstalled separately from the mainline client. It is pretty well hidden and many users probably don’t even know that btdna.exe is running, as its only noticeable when the Windows task manager is opened.

Update: We received a response from BitTorrent Inc.

The blog post suggesting BitTorrent DNA is an “exploitable” version of uTorrent is erroneous. The blogger you cite should have been more diligent in his/her research, but one can hardly expect reliable information from an anonymous blog. While it is possible for any application to send requests through btdna.exe as a simple proxy, the DNA client will only accelerate authorized URLs that are registered by BitTorrent Inc. in the DNA service center. When an authorized URL is passed to the proxy, the DNA client connects to a managed infrastructure that includes a high performance tracker that introduces the client to DNA peers who have also requested the same file. The DNA service center also includes a real-time
dashboard that provides our customers visibility and control over their accelerated content, as well as better management over their entire content delivery infrastructure.

As far as the user is concerned, BitTorrent DNA only receives data that a user requests. Like any BitTorrent transfer, it is ‘private’ in that it never uploads anything you yourself haven’t requested from a webpage. It does not anticipate user wants, or pre-load a user’s PC with content not explicitly requested via an HTTP request from a webpage. Our terms for DNA
require websites to disclose to users why and how DNA improves the experience for video, software, and games with P2P acceleration.

Furthermore, BitTorrent DNA when fully released in BitTorrent mainline will allow users to see and fully control DNA activity through the mainline interface. Currently DNA is being deployed as a stand alone application, but DNA functionality will be added to mainline seamlessly in the future. We have standardized our development for PC clients on the uTorrent codebase. Mainline 6.0 was the first to leverage this codebase, and our DNA client also leverages the uTorrent codebase but includes many new enhancements beyond uTorrent for things like video streaming for example.

Not all P2P video streaming is created equal, and we strive to offer progressively downloaded video maintaining as much of the efficiency “rarest-first” offered in traditional BitTorrent. Making video streaming with BitTorrent work reliably and efficiently is non-trivial engineering, and we’ve spent quite a bit of time getting it to be the best implementation available.

The best place to visualize DNA video in action is here:

Or for full length movies and TV shows here:

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  • Neglacio

    Will teach them :) Closing the BT specs ;)

  • first

    i am

  • uTorrent FTW

    the original BitTorrent client is a pile of crap, compared to uTorrent.

  • ….-=\

    That client is completely utter spam

    I ‘ve uninstalled immediately
    a year ago!

  • TonInter

    I don’t even watch videos… :-D

  • ArAsh

    I don’t even use internet lol :D

  • Anonymous

    I used some proggie that played normal torrents as streaming video a long long time ago, worked flawless aslong as the speed was okish otherwice it buffered just like any normal stream.
    Anyone else know the proggie? “torrentstream” maybe?

    Do DNA require some kind of special torrent format or something? sure hope not, kinda useless to make new formats when its already been more or less working over years ago.

    Maybe not stream and upload at the same time bit but that would be easely solved with some open source genius brain massage instead of new formats ;)

  • Anonymous

    Im a new format hater if it didnt notice :)
    HD-DVD and Blueray etc should melt in microwaves of justice.. xD

  • my brain is sore

    [quote comment="254642"]
    Maybe not stream and upload at the same time bit but that would be easely solved with some open source genius brain massage instead of new formats ;)[/quote]

    mmm brain massage.. can i get that with a happy ending?

  • Mattastic

    Hopefully there will be a quick fix. I haven’t tried it yet, but torrent streaming sounds like an excellent new technology, especially for small content folks.

    I don’t know how anyone uses the mainline client, though. That thing be ugly.

  • Wade

    I can’t stand the mainline client. I only have it for testing purposes, I would never use it regularly.

    HALITE FTW!

  • Anonymous

    It’s a bit of a stretch to call streaming over BitTorrent a new technology. All it is, is a modification to one of the algorithms in the BitTorrent peer wire protocol. Normally, BitTorrent clients request rare pieces from other clients to ensure swarm health. In a streaming situation, the BitTorrent client requests pieces in a sequential order.

    For an open source alternative to DNA, look no further than Azureus Vuze. When you choose to playback a video from the Vuze platform before the download is finished, the Azureus client immediately start to request pieces in sequential order. You can see this graphically in the Azureus piece information graph. The red arrows representing requested pieces shift from littered all over the piecemap to sequentially ordered from the beginning.

    I’m not saying Vuze is perfect, of course. Even though Azureus is open source, the Vuze license agreement limits derivative works to some extent. And Vuze only enables playback before download completion for videos from the Vuze platform, you can’t do it for ordinary torrents.

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  • soullexx

    a new innovation always brings in new creative problems.

  • FatAss

    [quote comment="254637"]I don’t even use internet lol :D[/quote]
    Yo ArAsh, if u don’t use the internet… Just how did you get to view this article?

    BTDNA is a sweet idea, but like with all things, when it has just kicked ff it needs testing, and is in it’s ‘TWEAKING’ stage. I’d love to see this kind of this kind of thing working on YouTube. After the Glitches though.

  • Anonymous

    BitTorrent DNA is not innovation. It is a modification, at best. And not a good modification at that.

    BitTorrent DNA is designed to do two things, neither of which are good things.

    1. It alters the BitTorrent piece downloading strategy to enable streaming. While this may sound good in paper, it in fact is detrimental to the protocol as a whole. One of the reason why BitTorrent is robust, scalable, and able to resist flash crowding is because of the randomized, rare-priority piece download strategy. This ensures that each peer has unique selection of pieces so that as peers download, they can share pieces with each other. This takes load off the initial seeds and enables swarms to scale. Imagine what happens when all peers want to stream the content. Instead of having unique pieces to share with each other, all peers will want the same pieces in sequential order from the beginning of the stream. Peers will have little to share with each other, thus placing load back onto the seed. This makes BitTorrent little better than a simple client/server distribution network.

    2. It attempts to hide the BitTorrent download process from the user. In a normal BitTorrent client, the user manually loads the .torrent metafile into the client to initiate the download, and has the option to modify a number of client settings to suit the user’s needs, including vital settings like upload bandwidth limits to suit the user’s ISP limitations. In BitTorrent DNA, however, the download initiation process is no longer placed in the user’s control, and the user is no longer able to modify the client’s settings. Rather, the BitTorrent DNA client opens up a local HTTP socket to respond to requests from Flash applications running on websites. Flash applications designed to use BitTorrent DNA tells it to start a BitTorrent download, not the user. Instead of the user determining when to enable a download to use his/her upload bandwidth, this control is placed in the hands of the content provider who makes the Flash application.

  • Anonymous

    By the way, the title of this article is a bit misleading. BitTorrent DNA is not “vulnerable” to remote hijack. It is actually designed to permit these so-called “remote hijacks”. The whole point of BitTorrent DNA is to allow Flash applications to stream files over BitTorrent without user intervention. Using Flash to access BitTorrent DNA is not an exploit, it is the exact function that BitTorrent DNA seeks to provide.

  • themagicke

    Very informative and well written @ #15.

    Thank you for that =)

  • glitch

    #16 You are wrong, you can keep the sites limited by keep a list in the crossdomain.xml that is embedded into the “btdna.exe”. At this point it allows “*” which means any movie from any domain can unload any type of content onto your machine. The issue here is that BitTorrent, Inc. claims it to be secure, this alone is a major security issue as well as a privacy concern.

  • Anonymous

    glitch, why do you think that it allows “*” in the first place? Do you really expect that users will manually configure each application to be used by BitTorrent DNA by editing an xml document? Or that BitTorrent Inc. push out a new version of BitTorrent DNA with an updated crossdomain.xml list everytime a new customer signs up to use their technology? If you can’t anticipate all domains that will use BitTorrent DNA to stream video, of course you would have to allow all domains.

    To solve this security problem you would need to present users with a dialog box with the option to allow or reject each Flash application that uses BitTorrent DNA, as well as a way for BitTorrent DNA to verify and store digital signatures for accepted Flash applications, with the help of a Certificate Authority. So a secure solution exists, of course, but it is not as simply as editing the crossdomain.xml file.

    Also, I don’t expect this solution to exist due to the nature of BitTorrent DNA. BitTorrent DNA is not designed for user control. It is designed for transparency, to utilize BitTorrent resources without the user even realizing it, so that Flash players that stream video over BitTorrent DNA look just like any other Flash player on the web. That’s why it runs as a daemon in the background, that’s why it doesn’t provide the user with a complex GUI and settings, and that’s why it won’t open up a dialog box asking user to approve each BitTorrent DNA-powered application.

  • ArAsh

    [quote comment="254741"][quote comment="254637"]I don’t even use internet lol :D[/quote]
    Yo ArAsh, if u don’t use the internet… Just how did you get to view this article?

    BTDNA is a sweet idea, but like with all things, when it has just kicked ff it needs testing, and is in it’s ‘TWEAKING’ stage. I’d love to see this kind of this kind of thing working on YouTube. After the Glitches though.[/quote]

    Have you ever heard of sense of humour?
    Yeah, I used that to read this article :D

  • Anonymous

    I miss when Bittorrent was open source, and you can fix the problems instead of complaining in utorrent forums which they removed my topic when I protested the closing of Bittorrents source.

    Now the only option you have is to complain, complain, complain, Man I hate this.

    I wish utorrent would go open source.

    Free Download Manager did that, they were closed source, but changed to open source.

  • bmtv

    Mike Kotter werks for the man

  • Anonymous

    use bitcomet

  • oneplusone

    [quote comment="254720"]It’s a bit of a stretch to call streaming over BitTorrent a new technology. All it is, is a modification to one of the algorithms in the BitTorrent peer wire protocol. Normally, BitTorrent clients request rare pieces from other clients to ensure swarm health. In a streaming situation, the BitTorrent client requests pieces in a sequential order.

    For an open source alternative to DNA, look no further than Azureus Vuze. When you choose to playback a video from the Vuze platform before the download is finished, the Azureus client immediately start to request pieces in sequential order. You can see this graphically in the Azureus piece information graph. The red arrows representing requested pieces shift from littered all over the piecemap to sequentially ordered from the beginning.

    I’m not saying Vuze is perfect, of course. Even though Azureus is open source, the Vuze license agreement limits derivative works to some extent. And Vuze only enables playback before download completion for videos from the Vuze platform, you can’t do it for ordinary torrents.[/quote]

    Java is for suckas!

  • glitch

    Notice that BitTorrent Inc. basically ignored the “secure/private” portions of my findings. Their response is lame at best. I will give an exploit on my next blog post to prove their “theory” incorrect about unauthorized offloading of content onto the “btdna.exe”. “btdna.exe” will communicate with “any” tracker not just theirs as they are seemingly stating.

  • amc1

    [quote comment="255377"]I will give an exploit on my next blog post to prove their “theory” incorrect about unauthorized offloading of content onto the “btdna.exe”. “btdna.exe” will communicate with “any” tracker not just theirs as they are seemingly stating.[/quote]
    And will that exploit show that the your upload bandwidth can be used to serve other users for content which isn’t authorised by BitTorrent Inc?

  • Anonymous

    You guys still seem to be confused. There is no such thing as BitTorrent Inc. authorized content for BitTorrent DNA. BitTorrent DNA is provided for third party use in the first place. Of course it allows all domains to access it, it’s not designed exclusively for Flash players used by BitTorrent Inc, it’s designed for all third parties who sign up for the technology to use.

  • amc1

    [quote comment="255492"]There is no such thing as BitTorrent Inc. authorized content for BitTorrent DNA… it’s designed for all third parties who sign up for the technology to use.[/quote]
    Which is what I meant. Although anyone could put DNA on their servers, only those servers which have licensed the technology would be able to have their distribution shared (which is what I meant by “authorised”) – in theory…

  • xXx

    Cmon propertiary software and closed….
    Get rTorrent

  • Vincent Price

    Ha a back door for the RIAA. We don’t need BT inc anymore ignore them until they die and use opensource clients. We don’t need their damn BT DNA protocol is fine the way it is.

  • Zoness

    I’m using uTorrent but Halite is definately my candidate for next bittorrent client. Once a few more features appear then I’ll probably switch. I used Mainline once years ago and it annoyed the crap out of me.

  • miniGandalf

    Thanks for the good picture, glitch and Anonymous!

    As i see now, there is a lot of work from BitTorrent Inc, to be the client end for download anything.
    But the current way is very dangerous for the end user.

    Firms want to put more “service” on the internet. The files will be bigger.
    So there are two kinds of putting info (===files) to the user.

    One way is – BitTorrent has revolutionized – putting and getting hudge file(s)
    form distributor to the client. This is for very big data, films and so on, where files resides on the client.
    The other way is streaming. This is good for teaching, film and video on demand and so on.

    The two technologies have only one thing common – the client program is running on the same machine. And, in that days, the programs are using the TCP/IP technology.

    If you want to build a service with streaming, you may buy some good programs. If this is not the way you want, you may use some open source programs. The later has the following problem: you may change and use the changed and better server program for you , internal. If you wonna make money with it, selling the program, you have a
    problem.

    Short and long videos and streaming, this is comming. Flash is everywhere, most of the user never thing about security risk with it. And this is, why i thank you for this topic.

    For streaming, there are standards. The standards are not so bad. Really.

    The standard interface in Java has Sun, and Sun has so copyrighted it’s interfacfe, that you, as programer, have only one possibilitiy – forget it. Never look and tuch.
    Or, if you do, and write any streaming server or streaming client program, you will have copyright problems.

    All you have written come to me as follows.
    I tell BitTorrent, i wonna use their “technology”. So, i pay (or something like that, it is not for my blue eyes) and write my special flash stream. Of course, i may write some codes. Some maybe very special and the user may got something
    very special if his/her end-IP is one of my favorites.

    Here is the point: Flash together with BitTorrent DNA is dangerous. Thank, glitch.
    And streaming client with the bittorrent technology – a bad joke.

    miniGandalf

  • wonderfulforhisage

    Duh?

  • Not an authorized Support Person

    Alarmist FUD is the reason the U.S.A. is still run by a monkey. . . Do you really want to be on-par with that kind of reporting. Alot of the talk about DNA “improvements” revolves around 2.0, which has yet to have a proposed release date. Presumably it will rely on a new stable version of uTorrent which leverages the features they want to implement. The codebase for “Mainline” will be closed for the same reason the codebase for uTorrent was closed when ludde was the sole proprietor of the client. I forsee BitTorrent 6.0.1/6.1 or they may even jump a version or two to coincide with numbering correlating off the uTorrent basecode version.
    Understanding that change doesn’t happen overnight and since BT,Inc. developers have the same limitations as any other developer ADDED to communicating with a sales/marketing department now… when’s the last time a coder spoke in the same tongue as a marketing guy?
    To those who complain about service on the forums… it’s a free service, so you should do your OWN due diligence before reporting a problem you’re having. All-in-all keeping issues separate and concise, as in the title in-relation-to the actual content, should be evaluated and followed. I am usually happy with your reporting Ernesto, but this shrieks of “viewership inflation”.
    OT: I’m amazed at you Anonymous, you don’t even realize who you’re talking to above… I know who you are azureus developer. Don’t worry the FUD never wins in the end.

  • hortizonen

    All I know is I deleted bittorrent and Btdna is still on my comp using between 2 and 95 percent of my proc limit. This is short cuz my keystroks arent recognized till 5 sec after i press them…agonizing…also new processes are pinger.exe and Apoint.exe…cannot find these readily…anyone wanna give me a place to look?

  • hortizonen

    An update…i found Btdna.exe in program files/DNa can be deleted without return. both pinger and apoint checked out. For reference to the article…As soon as I deleted DNA directory my computer started working same as always…I do not know what it was being used for or by whom…not as smart as most of you here..but it was certainly overloading my system resources…My experience with this program was bad…maybe not same for everyone, but there is definently an issue…I have neither downloaded nor installed any new program or file in the last two days…this issue began this morning…weather or not the program is malicious is beyond me but i suggest avoidance based on my brush with it.

  • desperate

    Can you please tell us how you deleted the file, because it doesn’t want to delete here!!
    Thanks!!

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  • John

    All you have to do is uninstall DNA in the add/remove programs. You can leave BitTorrent as I did, it hasn’t been a problem so far.

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  • Canadianperson

    GG windows vista, auto detected and blocked for me :P
    Add/remove program
    and also gg

  • rd

    [quote comment="268432"]Can you please tell us how you deleted the file, because it doesn’t want to delete here!!
    Thanks!![/quote]
    Likewise here. Add/Remove software won’t respond when I try to remove this. Anyone have advice? I am also experiencing serious delays in keyboard response since this program appeared, like 2 – 5 seconds. Maddening!

  • rd

    Update here – I went to Program Files/DNA and right-clicked then delete. Seems to have resolved the responsiveness issues. Hope this is an appropriate action, ie. didn’t break something that shows up later.

  • ^^

    i have this program, if i delete it.. will my loading videos be gone too? I need some advice.. thnx

  • rd

    I haven’t noticed anything not working, yet.

    I don’t like programs that install themselves without my knowledge.

  • Anonymous

    My software firewall says “btdna.exe is trying to transmit e-mail” STMP to a particular IP address. Why e-mail??

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  • joe b.

    i uninstalled bittorrent yesterday and the add/remove programs control panel said that bittorrent had been completely removed from my system. but when i booted up this morning and logged in as the administrator, zonealarm popped up and asked me if i wanted to allow btdna.exe to access the internet.

    even after shutting down dna and removing it through the add/remove programs control panel, btdna.exe was left on my computer (in C:\Program Files\DNA), as were all of its plug-ins, two .pf files in the C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch folder, and numerous refences in the registry.

    maybe the bittorrent flack would like to respond to this?

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  • Ambivalent

    Its a service “passworded” for acceleration features…by whether URL resides on uTorrent trackers.

    Of course URLs have been forged since the mid-1990s. So its not exactly secure “passwording”. Actually the easiest would be to use old HOST file trick to redirect queries to uTorrent servers to your own tracker.

    Unless that whole communication is encrypted with asymmetric keys. Doubtful.

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    And uTorrent itself admits that standard proxy service goes through unimpeded. The old open mail relay issue. The fast it doesn’t suck an accelerated amount of bandwidth is sort of a moot point.

  • Sleepy

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    Torrent isn’t save.. the RIAA is all over it.. we usually proxy or tor though, or use other means to mask our connections.. OR use secure trackers

    Ok, well this is using just a public tracker where all of the ips are going to be saved, and to top it all off guys, the file is ALWAYS RUNNING.. so whenever you change your ip, the RIAA can find you..

    And not only the RIAA, who knows what this program can do, we already know that it can “Share Media” but what exactly does that media have to be..

    Our pc? Our applications?

    What if our apps are comprimised, or sensitive files, and then basically we will be committing a crime, wheither or not we know it, and unfortunately the law isn’t up to speed and if you are doing this, eventually something is going to happen…

    I really don’t think its a good idea to have this installed on your pc, I had it on mine and I had NO IDEA.. I just installed bittorrent to use on my private tracker (usually I don’t even use bittorrent) and I uninstalled the program, afterward this btdna was still running..

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    btDNA was running days after I had last used DNA to download torrents. This goes against DNA’s blurb on http://www.bittorrent.com/dna/whatisdna/ which claims that it only runs for a short while. It starts again after a reboot (but only when the installer of DNS logs on.) It also uses NAT-busting techniques to open up reverse paths. Confirmed using Wireshark and a temporary install of ZoneAlarm (thanks to Acronis :)

    A nasty piece of work. I have found that using Add/Remove programs on “DNA” is sufficient to remove it.

    Andrew Hilborne

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  • john

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  • Kathy

    Sentimental and nostalgic. Great.

  • Willem

    Cool!.. Nice work…d

  • Kathy

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  • Hannes

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  • Vince

    I have been looking for sites like this for a long time. Thank you!i

  • john

    Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it! :)

  • Timmy

    Thanks so very much for taking your time to create this very useful and informative site. I have learned a lot from your site. Thanks!!

  • Dan

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  • Ron

    Check out my new site:)

  • Willem

    Thank for making this valuable information available to the public.

  • john

    Magnificent collection of prayers – and I haven\’t begun to explore the rest of the website!

  • Melissa

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  • john

    i love this site.y

  • Rosina

    Just wanted to say hello

  • john

    This is very interesting site…d

  • Willem

    You guys do a wonderful job! Keep up the good work!!!b

  • Ron

    I can find the prayer I want. I thank God for this website.e

  • john

    Found your site in google, and it has a lot of usefull information. Thanx.t

  • Martin

    I\’l be back… :)

  • Rosina

    This website is useful for individuals who are searching prayers and novenas and all.h

  • Siber

    These prayers help me to keep God in my life, especially with the many distractions I encounter.

  • Hannes

    Excellent site, added to favorites!!c

  • Martin

    Just serfed in. Great site, guys!

  • Siber

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  • Dan

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  • jeroen

    I have been looking for sites like this for a long time. Thank you!2

  • Melissa

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  • Kathy

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  • Melissa

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  • judy

    This website is Great! I will recommend you to all my friends. I found so much useful things here. Thank you.

  • Kathy

    The site\’\'s very professional! Keep up the good work! Oh yes, one extra comment – maybe you could add more pictures too! So, good luck to your team!

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