Analysing Countermeasures Against Privacy-Invasive Software
Martin Boldt, Bengt Carlsson · 2006
Abstract-User privacy is widely affected by the occurrence of privacy-invasive software (PIS) on the Internet. Various forms of countermeasures try to mitigate the negative effects caused by PIS. We use a computer forensic tool to evaluate an anti-spyware tool, with respect to found PIS over a four years period. Within the anti-spyware tool PIS was slowly identified, caused classification problems, and formely classified PIS were sometimes excluded. Background information on both PIS and counter-measure techniques are also presented, followed by discussions on legal disputes between developers of PIS and vendors of countermeasures. I.