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Type of publication:Inproceedings
Entered by:chita
TitleA Worm Propagation Model Based on People's Email Acquaintance Profiles.
Bibtex cite IDRACTI-RU1-2006-69
Booktitle 2nd international Workshop on Internet & Network Economics (WINE 2006)
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Year published 2006
Month November
Volume 4286/2006
Pages 343-352
Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
URL http://wine2006.cti.gr/
DOI 10.1007/11944874
Abstract
One frequently employed way of propagation exploited by worms is through the victim¢s contact book. The contact book, which reflects the acquaintance profiles of people, is used as a “hit-list”, to which the worm can send itself in order to spread fast. In this paper we propose a discrete worm propagation model that relies upon a combined email and Instant Messaging (IM) communication behaviour of users. We also model user reaction against infected email as well as the rate at which antivirus software is installed. User acquaintance is perceived as a “network” connecting users based on their contact book links. We then propose a worm propagation formulation based on a token propagation algorithm, further analyzed with a use of a system of continuous differential equations, as dictated by Wormald¢s theorem on approximating “well-behaving” random processes with deterministic functions.
Authors
Komninos, T
Stamatiou, Yannis
Vavitsas, G
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