Resolving the menace of spyware through implementations in application layer and network layer

Spyware, a potentially unwanted program (PUP), monitors the online activity of the users and introduces serious privacy disclosures and potential security breach to the systems. Various measures are adopted to counteract it and presently we hugely rely on the various antispyware softwares. However, the existing spyware tools are stateless because if any new system is added to a network, the system is made to have its own antispyware software methods in order to safeguard itself. This paper thus proposes a new technique wherein the antispyware software is done away with and in place we utilise the fundamentals of the network layer and the application layer to eliminate the spyware. The technique scans the various outgoing HTTP requests at the browser itself and then proposes a new addendum at both the DNS and the network layer in order to detect the presence of spyware and filter off the potentially unwanted program.