ThinAV: Truly lightweight mobile cloud-based anti-malware

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 209-218

  Jarabek, Chris ^a   Barrera, David ^b   Aycock, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Android; Anti virus; Cloud computing; Malware

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; ANTI VIRUS; ANTI-MALWARE; FILE SCANNING; MALWARE DETECTION; MALWARES; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; ROBOTS; SECURITY OF DATA; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VIRUSES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84872103883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2420950.2420983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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