Vasileios Vlachos, Diomidis Spinellis, Stefanos Androutsellis-Theotokis
3rd International Conference on e-Democracy, Athens, Greece
September 2009
Download PDF (135.4Kb) (You need to be registered on forum)Recent malware epidemics proved beyond any doubt that frightful predictions of fast-spreading worms have been well founded. While we can identify and neutralize many types of malicious code, often we are not able to do that in a timely enough manner to suppress its uncontrolled propagation. In this paper we discuss the decisive factors that affect the propagation of a worm and evaluate their effectiveness.