IEEE Spectrum
The “worm” programs—early experience with a distributed computation
Communications of the ACM
Code red worm propagation modeling and analysis
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time
Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Security Symposium
Measuring and Modeling Computer Virus Prevalence
SP '93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Experiences with worm propagation simulations
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
Worm propagation modeling and analysis under dynamic quarantine defense
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
The Blaster Worm: Then and Now
IEEE Security and Privacy
Exploit hijacking: side effects of smart defenses
Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCOMM workshop on Large-scale attack defense
WitMeMo '06 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Wireless traffic measurements and modeling
An Automated Signature-Based Approach against Polymorphic Internet Worms
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Automated peer-to-peer security-update propagation network
ICCOMP'07 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computers
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Encounter-based worms: Analysis and defense
Ad Hoc Networks
Proceedings of the 2008 workshop on New security paradigms
A distributed framework for passive worm detection and throttling in P2P networks
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Fast quarantining of proactive worms in unstructured P2P networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A worm behavioral approach to susceptible host detection
GCC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing
An anti-worm with balanced tree based spreading strategy
ICMLC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Advances in Machine Learning and Cybernetics
A novel dynamic immunization strategy for computer network epidemics
ISPEC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Information Security Practice and Experience
DIMVA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment
Pools, clubs and security: designing for a party not a person
Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on New security paradigms
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Self-propagating computer worms have been terrorizing the Internet for the last several years. With the increasing density, inter-connectivity and bandwidth of the Internet combined with security measures that inadequately scale, worms will continue to plague the Internet community. Existing anti-virus and intrusion detection systems are clearly inadequate to defend against many recent fast-spreading worms. In this paper we explore an active counter-attack method - anti-worms. We propose a method that transforms a malicious worm into an anti-worm which disinfects its original. The method is evaluated using the CodeRed, Blaster and Slammer worms. We show through simulation the effectiveness of an anti-worm with several propagation schemes and its impact on the overall network. We also discuss important limitations of the proposed method.