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...
Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Chad Verbowski, Aaron...
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...
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 ...
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...
Raja Khurram Shahzad, Syed Imran Haider, Niklas La...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Andreas Stamminger, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni ...