A study of malware in peer-to-peer networks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 327-332

  Kalafut, Andrew ^a   Acharya, Abhinav ^a   Gupta, Minaxi ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtering; Limewire; Malware; OpenFT; Peer to peer

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; FILE ORGANIZATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

LIMEWIRE MECHANISMS; MALWARE; PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547437877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1177080.1177124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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