A Crawler-based Study of Spyware on the Web by Alexander Moshchuk, Tanya Bragin, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Levy
AUTHORS' DESCRIPTION
In this paper we change perspective, examining the nature of the spyware threat not on the desktop but from an Internet point of view. To do this, we conduct a large-scale outward-looking study by crawling the Web, downloading content from a large number of sites, and then analyzing it to determine whether it is malicious.
Overall, our goal is to provide a quantitative analysis of the extent of spyware-laden content in the Web. Read the full article
by Alexander Moshchuk, Tanya Bragin, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Levy
AUTHORS' DESCRIPTIONIn this paper we change perspective, examining the nature of the spyware threat not on the desktop but from an Internet point of view. To do this, we conduct a large-scale outward-looking study by crawling the Web, downloading content from a large number of sites, and then analyzing it to determine whether it is malicious.
Overall, our goal is to provide a quantitative analysis of the extent of spyware-laden content in the Web.








