Where have the worms and viruses gone?-new trends in malware

Computer Fraud and Security

Volumn 2006, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 4-8

  Schultz, E Eugene ^a  

^a High Tower Software ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-VIRUS TOOL; BOTNET; HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE; INSTANT MESSAGING (IM); MALWARE;

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORMS; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SECURITY OF DATA; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SPAMMING;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 33747185908     PISSN: 13613723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-3723(06)70398-0     Document Type: Article

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2. Tired of paying for the massive amount of network traffic that worms and viruses typically generate, an increasing number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have in particular been much more aggressively combating worms and viruses in recent years.
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