Research and development of instant messaging worms

Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2118-2130

  Qing, Si Han ^a,b,c   Wang, Chao ^a,b,c   He, Jian Bo ^a,c   Li, Da Zhi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b Beijing Zhongke Ansheng Corporation of Information Technology   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

IM (instant messaging) worm; Internet worm; Network security; Network topology; Propagation model

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; PREVENTION; TOPOLOGY;

INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) WORM; INTERNET WORM; NETWORK SECURITY; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PROPAGATION MODEL;

COMPUTER WORMS;

EID: 33751574795     PISSN: 10009825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/jos172118     Document Type: Article

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