Immunizing online reputation reporting systems against unfair ratings and discriminatory behavior
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Understanding Spyware: Risk and Response
IT Professional
Busting the ghost in the machine
Communications of the ACM - Spyware
Privacy-Invasive Software and Preventive Mechanisms
ICSNC '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems and Networks Communication
Software Vulnerability Assessment Version Extraction and Verification
ICSEA '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
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Privacy-invasive software, loosely labelled spyware, is an increasingly common problem for today's computer users, one to which there is no absolute cure. Most privacy-invasive software is positioned in a legal grey zone, as the user accepts the malicious behaviour when agreeing to the End User License Agreement. This paper proposes the use of a specialized reputation system to gather and share information regarding software behaviour between community users. A client application helps guide the user at the point of executing software on the local computer, displaying other users' feedback about the expected behaviour of the software. We discuss important aspects to consider when constructing such a system, and propose possible solutions. Based on the observations made, we implemented a client/server based proof-of-concept tool, which allowed us to demonstrate how such a system would work. We also compare this solution to other, more conventional, protection methods such as anti-virus and anti-spyware software.