Tracing the Source of Net-Virus within a Subnet

Author

Han, LanSheng ; Washington, Varney ; Wang, Yuanbo ; Han, Shuxia

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Security Comput. Sci., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2006

fDate

3-5 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The paper presents the definition for the source of viruses in a subnet: the start vertex of the spreading path of the virus. Then the paper points out state changing of the vertices caused by the spreading of the virus is the important hints to tracing the spreading path of the virus, the scanning and cleaning are main methods to get these hints. So the paper establishes the source tracing equations for the net virus. Combining with the practice, the paper presents the main steps and methods to get the solutions to the equations. Finally, the paper carries out the simulation test on an email group net. The results of the test verify the tracing model. Thus the paper opens a theoretic way to tracing the source of net viruses

Keywords

computer networks; computer viruses; telecommunication security; net-virus source; network security; network virus; source tracing model; Cleaning; Collaborative work; Computer security; Educational institutions; Equations; Inverse problems; Mathematics; Testing; Viruses (medical); Vocational training; Network Security; Network Virus; Tracing Source of Virus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0164-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0165-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2006.253090

Filename

4019126