A Crawler-based Study of Spyware on the Web

Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, NDSS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Moshchuk, Alexander ^a   Bragin, Tanya ^a   Gribble, Steven D ^a   Levy, Henry M ^a  

^a School of Medicine Billings   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES; NETWORK SECURITY;

DESKTOP SECURITY; DRIVE-BY DOWNLOADS; EXECUTABLES; LARGE-SCALES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; SPYWARE PROGRAMS; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; WEB-PAGE;

WEBSITES;

EID: 85077681170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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