Is spyware an internet nuisance or public menance?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 61-66

  Qing, H U ^a   Dinev, Tamara ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL PRESSURE; SPYWARE; SUBJECTIVE NORMS (SN); TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PRIVACY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 23344444212     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1076211.1076241     Document Type: Review

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