USENIX
2007
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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 ...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
—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...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
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...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
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...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
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...
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2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
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...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
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...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
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...