Quorum sensing and self-stopping worms

WORM'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 16-22

  Vogt, Ryan ^a   Aycock, John ^a   Jacobson Jr , Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Malware; Quorum sensing; Self stopping algorithms; Worms

Indexed keywords

COUNTER MEASURES; MALWARES; NEW MECHANISMS; OVERLAY CONTROL; QUORUM-SENSING; SCANNING WORMS; STOPPING MECHANISM;

ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTER WORMS;

EID: 73649088880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1314389.1314394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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