Preventing Privacy-Invasive Software using Online Reputations

摘要: Privacy-invasive software, loosely labeled spyware, is an increasingly common problem for today’s computer users, one to which there no absolute cure. Most of the privacy-invasive software are positioned in a legal gray zone, as user accepts malicious behaviour when agreeing End User License Agreement. This paper proposes use specialized reputation system gather and share information regarding between community users. A client application helps guide at point executing on local computer, displaying other users’ feedback about expected software. We discuss important aspects consider constructing such system, propose possible solutions. Based observations made, we implemented client/server based proof-of-concept tool, allowed us demonstrate how would work. also compare this solution other, more conventional, protection methods anti-virus anti-spyware