Classification methods in the detection of new malicious emails

Information Sciences

Volumn 172, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 241-261

  Shih, Dong Her ^a   Chiang, Hsiu Sen ^a   Yen, C David ^b  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antivirus; Bayesian classifier; Decision tree; Email virus detection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER VIRUSES; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANTIVIRUS; BAYESIAN CLASSIFIERS; DECISION TREE; VIRUS DETECTION;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 18144374544     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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