Spyware: Firefox and IE

Posted by tadelste on Nov 3, 2005 7:56 PM EDT
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I'm over at the University of Washington computer science department's Industrial Affiliates Meeting today, where UW computer science grad students and professors are showing some of their latest projects to a variety of people from the computer industry. One of the talks this morning, by grad student Alexander Moshchuk, showed some preliminary results from a study that used automated methods to try to attract spyware and study its prevalence. The study looked at spyware delivered not only through downloaded programs but also via "drive-by downloads," picked up by simply visiting Web sites that deliver the spyware.

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I want my money back! ignernt grad students! tuxchick 6 1,001 Nov 4, 2005 10:27 AM

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