Spyware: A view from the (online) street

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 96-99

  Poston, Robin ^a   Stafford, Thomas F ^a   Hennington, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SPYWARES; MICROSOFT WINDOWS; SOFTWARE INSTALLATION; SPYWARE PROTECTION;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER VIRUSES; MARKETING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 23344452974     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1076211.1076247     Document Type: Review

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