An empirical investigation of the prevalence of spyware in internet shareware and freeware distributions

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 697-708

  Kucera, Kyle ^a   Plaisent, Michel ^b,c   Bernard, Prosper ^b,d,e   Maguiraga, Lassana ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MIS Program   (United States)

^d ARGOSY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University Consortium of the Americas

^f University of Quebec ^*  (Mali)

^g MBA Program

Author keywords

Computer software; Data security; Internet; Marketing strategy; Privacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844477240     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390510628391     Document Type: Article

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