Web Browsing and Spyware Intrusion

Sudhindra SHUKLA, Fiona Fui-Hoon NAH

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)85-90
JournalCommunications of the ACM
Volume48
Issue number8
Online published1 Aug 2005
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2005
Externally publishedYes

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