SpySaver
Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman · 2008
Despite the many solutions proposed by industry and the research community to address spyware, this problem continues to grow. Many of today's anti-spyware approaches are inspired by techniques used against related security problems, such as worms, DoS attacks, computer viruses, and spam. Although these techniques have been retrofitted to address spyware, they remain ineffective because they rely on the compromised host to detect and remove spyware. Once a host is compromised, attackers often find simple ways to escape spyware detection and removal.