Notice of RetractionThe research and development of worm defense strategies

Notice of Retraction

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The deterioration of worm propagation on internet in recent years has pushed the research in the field of worm defense, as a result there are coming up plenty of worm defense strategies. This paper refers to make the systematic study of the complete worm defense strategies and provide taxonomy of worm defense system strategies according to the key factors of each defense category. As guideline for the design of worm defense, we compare the present evaluation of the worm defense strategies, and give a highlight on the trendy of worm defense in the future at the end.