• DocumentCode
    1582633
  • Title

    Hunter: An Anti spyware for windows Operating System

  • Author

    Arastouie, Narges ; Raz, Mohammad Reza

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Eng. & IT, Amirkabir Univ. of Technol., Tehran
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    Internet is growing with a great speed and this new human phenomenon is attracting the attention of all kind of people and organizations attractions with positive or negative purposes. Spywares, with different purposes are collecting people´s personal information without making them aware of it and having their permission to do it. Such software often install themselves on PC´s and start to collect information including list of websites visited by users and are able to monitor and detect information typed via keyboard, email addresses and other sensitive or secret information that user dose not intend to propagate or more secret information like ID´s and passwords. Afterward, they send this information to their main spy data base. Spywares are causing security and political risks and problems for organizations. In this article we present the specification and architecture of the Hunter, an anti spyware, which we developed to make the systems safe against such intruer spywares. Implementation of such software will be described in two separate phases. First phase is data acquisition. We obtain a huge Database of whole system´s process information. This is done by considering characteristics and operations performed by different kind of spywares. Whole process´s information is kept in a database so that we can reach the best possible trust gauge by observing all aspect of the subject. The second phase is spy ware detection that is done by use of the data base which we developed in the previous phase. The spyware detection is done with three degree of accuracy: high, medium and low.
  • Keywords
    Internet; data acquisition; operating systems (computers); security of data; Hunter; Internet; antispyware; data acquisition; email addresses; political risks; security risks; windows operating system; Computer architecture; Data security; Databases; Humans; Information security; Internet; Keyboards; Monitoring; Operating systems; Permission; Anti Spyware; Polic; hack; pop-up;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Damascus
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1751-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1752-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4530281
  • Filename
    4530281