Computer virus detection using features ranking and machine learning

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1482-1486

  Altaher, Altyeb ^a   Ramadass, Sureswaran ^a   Ali, Ammar ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Computer virus detection; Data mining; Information gain; Signature based detection; Voted perceptron classification algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755176870     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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