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USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Dynamic Spyware Analysis
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 ...
Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, Engin Kirda, He...
USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Supporting Multiple OSes with OS Switching
—People increasingly put more than one OSes into their computers and devices like mobile phones. Multi-boot and virtualization are two common technologies for this purpose. In th...
Jun Sun 0002, Dong Zhou, Steve Longerbeam
USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch
Current disk prefetch policies in major operating systems track access patterns at the level of the file abstraction. While this is useful for exploiting application-level access...
Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, X...
USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
From STEM to SEAD: Speculative Execution for Automated Defense
Most computer defense systems crash the process that they protect as part of their response to an attack. Although recent research explores the feasibility of selfhealing to autom...
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. C...
USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Using Provenance to Aid in Personal File Search
As the scope of personal data grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to find what we need when we need it. Desktop search tools provide a potential answer, but most existing too...
Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, B...
USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Virtually Shared Displays and User Input Devices
This paper proposes making displays and input devices as first-class citizens in a networked system environment for collaborative applications. The paper describes a virtually sha...
Grant Wallace, Kai Li
USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Structured and Unstructured P2P Approaches to Heterogeneous Random Peer Selection
Random peer selection is used by numerous P2P applications; examples include application-level multicast, unstructured file sharing, and network location mapping. In most of thes...
Vivek Vishnumurthy, Paul Francis
USENIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Wresting Control from BGP: Scalable Fine-Grained Route Control
Today’s Internet users and applications are placing increased demands on Internet service providers (ISPs) to deliver fine-grained, flexible route control. To assist network o...
Patrick Verkaik, Dan Pei, Tom Scholl, Aman Shaikh,...