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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"computer viruses"”.
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Markovian and stochastic differential equation based approaches to computer virus propagation dynamics and some models for survival distributions
… probabilistic modeling of propagation of computer 'malware' (generally referred to as `virus') across a network of computers, and investigates modeling improvements achieved by introducing a random latency period during which an infected computer in the network is unable to infect others. …
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Using STAMP to understand recent increases in malicious software activity
… to investigate the threat posed by malicious computer software such as computer viruses. The problem is especially interesting because surrounding the technical aspects of malicious software is a rich socio-technical system. The first part of the thesis investigates two recent computer worm …
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Making diffusion work for you: Classification sans text, finding culprits and filling missing values
… like memes, hashtags, influenza infections, computer viruses etc., as viruses spreading in a network. This treatment allows for the usage of epidemiologically inspired models to study or model these interactions. Understanding the complex propagation dynamics involved in information diffusion …
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Behaviour-based Virus Analysis and Detection
Every day, the growing number of viruses causes major damage to computer systems, which many antivirus products have been developed to protect. Regrettably, existing antivirus products do not provide a full solution to the problems associated with viruses. One of the main reasons for this is that …
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Using Plant Epidemiological Methods to Track Computer Network Worms
Network worms that scan random computers have caused billions of dollars in damage to enterprises across the Internet. Earlier research has concentrated on using epidemiological models to predict the number of computers a worm will infect and how long it takes to do so. In this research, one …
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Computer Virus Spread Containment Using Feedback Control.
In this research, a security architecture based on the feedback control theory has been proposed. The first loop has been designed, developed and tested. The architecture proposes a feedback model with many controllers located at different stages of network. The controller at each stage gives …
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Fine-grained reasoning about the security and usability trade-off in modern security tools
… tool that protects systems against worms and viruses by scanning data against a database of signatures. Despite its importance and wide usage, AV has received little attention from the security research community. In this dissertation, we examine the AV internals and reason about the …