What do consumers really know about Spyware?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 44-48

  Zhang, Xiaoni ^a  

^a NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER KNOWLEDGE; DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT; ONLINE TRANSACTION; SPYWARE;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; DATA PRIVACY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 23344449408     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1076211.1076238     Document Type: Review

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