TY - JOUR
T1 - Web Browsing and Spyware Intrusion
AU - SHUKLA, Sudhindra
AU - NAH, Fiona Fui-Hoon
PY - 2005/8
Y1 - 2005/8
N2 - The spyware dissemination of a Personal computers (PC) by different kinds of websites is discussed. The study was carried out on dedicated PCs using a security setting of medium in Internet Explorer v6, with Symantecanti-virus software were installed and Zone Alarm as the firewall. Ad-Aware was the spyware tool used in this study for detecting and identifying the spyware. It has been shown that the user browsing is bound to increase with the growth of IT, and Web services shall continue to seek to exploit user browsing behavior patterns.
AB - The spyware dissemination of a Personal computers (PC) by different kinds of websites is discussed. The study was carried out on dedicated PCs using a security setting of medium in Internet Explorer v6, with Symantecanti-virus software were installed and Zone Alarm as the firewall. Ad-Aware was the spyware tool used in this study for detecting and identifying the spyware. It has been shown that the user browsing is bound to increase with the growth of IT, and Web services shall continue to seek to exploit user browsing behavior patterns.
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U2 - 10.1145/1076211.1076245
DO - 10.1145/1076211.1076245
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0001-0782
VL - 48
SP - 85
EP - 90
JO - Communications of the ACM
JF - Communications of the ACM
IS - 8
ER -