LISA
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Spyware is a rapidly spreading problem for PC users causing significant impact on system stability and privacy concerns. It attaches to extensibility points in the system to ensur...
USENIX
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Spyware is a class of malicious code that is surreptitiously installed on victims’ machines. Once active, it silently monitors the behavior of users, records their web surfing ...
CEAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
The University of Calgary is attacking the problems of spam and spyware from the angle of education. "Spam and Spyware" is a computer science course offered at both the ...
IEEEARES
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2010
IEEE
Spyware represents a serious threat to confidentiality since it may result in loss of control over private data for computer users. This type of software might collect the data and...
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
We present NetSpy, a tool to automatically generate network-level signatures for spyware. NetSpy determines whether an untrusted program is spyware by correlating user input with ...
RAID
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
Spyware infections are becoming extremely pervasive, posing a grave threat to Internet users’ privacy. Control of such an epidemic is increasingly difficult for the existing def...
IPCCC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
The success of any spyware is determined by its ability to evade detection. Although traditional detection methodologies employing signature and anomaly based systems have had rea...
ISW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Various online studies on the prevalence of spyware attest overwhelming numbers (up to 80%) of infected home computers. However, the term spyware is ambiguous and can refer to anyt...