A New Approach to Automatically Detect Worms

Worms are a serious and growing threat to network and traditional antivirus technologies do not currently scale to deal with the worm threat. Benign worms, especially active benign worms and hybrid benign worms, become a new active countermeasure. In ...

Capable of infecting hundreds of thousands of hosts, worms represent a major threat to the Internet. However, the defense against them is still an open problem. This paper attempts to answer an important question: How can we distinguish polymorphic ...

Modern network worms spread with tremendous speed-potentially covering the planet in mere seconds. However, for most worms, this prodigious pace continues unabated long after the outbreak's incidence has peaked. Indeed, it is this ongoing infection ...