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Email Worm Modeling and Defense

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Overview Email worms constitute one of the major Internet security problems. This paper presents an email worm model that accounts for the behaviors of email users by considering email checking time and the probability of opening email attachments. Email worms spread over a logical network defined by email address relationship, which plays an important role in determining the spreading dynamics of an email worm. The observations suggest that the node degrees of an email network are heavy-tailed distributed. Email worm propagation is compared on three topologies: power law, small world and random graph topologies; and then study how the topology affects immunization defense on email worms.

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Publisher	University of Massachusetts	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Email

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