Recent worms: A survey and trends

WORM'03 - Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-10

  Kienzle, Darrell M ^a   Elder, Matthew C ^b  

^a SYMANTEC RESEARCH LABS   (United States)

^b Network Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Malicious code; Survey

Indexed keywords

BREADTH-FIRST APPROACH; MALICIOUS CODES; SELF-REPLICATING CODES; WORM INFORMATIONS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VIRUSES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FLOPPY DISK STORAGE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); RISK MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

COMPUTER WORMS;

EID: 17644421307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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