The anatomy of Clickbot.A

Rapidly increasing malware samples pose a serious threat to cyber security especially when they are not getting detected by security tools and techniques. Malware writers obfuscate the malware samples to conceal malicious code inside a legitimate ...

We present a general framework for reasoning about network worms and analyzing the potency of worms within a specific network. First, we present a discussion of the life cycle of a worm based on a survey of contemporary worms. We build on that life ...

As in controlling the spread of real diseases, the key to effective defenses against computer viruses is to understand the cause and mechanism of infection, not to focus on the symptoms. A computer virus that erases a user's files may seem very ...