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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Beomsoo Park, Sungjin Hong, Jaewook Oh & Heejo Lee
Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University,
Paul Kantor
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, 08901-1071, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Gheorghe Muresan
Artificial Solutions, Altonaer Poststraße 13b, 22767, Hamburg, Germany
Fred Roberts
MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA
Daniel D. Zeng
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Fei-Yue Wang
Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA
Hsinchun Chen
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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About this paper Cite this paperPark, 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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