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Defending a Web Browser Against Spying with Browser Helper Objects

Abstract

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) is the most widely used web browser, and the IE’s global usage is reported as 93.9% share in May 2004 according to OneStat.com. The dominant web browser supports an extensible framework with a Browser Helper Object (BHO), which is a small program that runs automatically everytime starting IE. However, malicious BHOs abuse this feature to manipulate the browser events and gather private information, which are also known as adwares or spywares

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 136-701, Korea

    Beomsoo Park, Sungjin Hong, Jaewook Oh & Heejo Lee

Editor information Editors and Affiliations
  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University,  

    Paul Kantor

  2. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, 08901-1071, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Gheorghe Muresan

  3. Artificial Solutions, Altonaer Poststraße 13b, 22767, Hamburg, Germany

    Fred Roberts

  4. MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel D. Zeng

  5. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

  6. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  7. College of Computing, Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive, 30332-0280, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ralph C. Merkle

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© 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

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Park, B., Hong, S., Oh, J., Lee, H. (2005). Defending a Web Browser Against Spying with Browser Helper Objects. In: Kantor, P., et al. Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11427995_85

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