Cost-effective spam detection in p2p file-sharing systems

  • Authors:
  • Dongmei Jia

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Large-Scale distributed systems for information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Spam is highly pervasive in P2P file-sharing systems and is difficult to detect automatically before actually downloading a file due to the insufficient and biased description of a file returned to a client as a query result. To alleviate this problem, we propose probing technique to collect more complete feature information of query results from the network and apply feature-based ranking for automatically detecting spam in P2P query result sets. Furthermore, we examine the tradeoff between the spam detection performance and the network cost. Different ways of probing are explored to reduce the network cost. Experimental results show that the proposed techniques successfully decrease the amount of spam by 9% in the top-200 results and by 92% in the top-20 results with reasonable cost.