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Abstract | ||
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Personal privacy is affected by the occurance of adware and spyware in peer-to-peer tools. In an experiment, we investigated five file-sharing tools and found that they all contained ad-/spyware programs, and, that these hidden components communicated with several servers on the Internet. Although there was no exchange of files by way of the file-sharing tools, they generated a significant amount of network traffic. Amongst the retrieved ad-/spyware programs that communicated with the Internet, we discovered that privacy-invasive information such as, e.g., user data and Internet browsing history was transmitted. In conclusion, ad-/spyware, activity in file-sharing tools creates serious problems not only to user privacy and security, but also to network and system performance. The increasing presence of hidden and bundled ad-spyware programs in combination with the absence of proper anti-ad/spyware tools are therefore not beneficial for the development of a secure and stable use of the Internet. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1007/1-4020-8145-6_22 | INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION AND PRIVACY |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
spyware, adware, peer-to-peer, privacy | Conference | 148 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1571-5736 | 3 | 0.48 |
References | Authors | |
2 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andreas Jacobsson | 1 | 77 | 10.61 |
| Martin Boldt | 2 | 137 | 16.90 |
| Bengt Carlsson | 3 | 172 | 22.54 |