Muhammad Usman Rashid; Balakrishna Garapati MCS-2009:6, pp. 44. COM/School of Computing, 2009.
Spyware is a threat to Internet users because it may obtain valuable information from the users’ machines without their consent. The existing anti- spyware techniques are not found to be accurate enough in the prevention or detection of spyware. According to the law in many countries, vendors are bound to mention any inclusion of spyware in the End User License Agreement (EULA) of the associated software. Moreover, this agreement must be accepted by the user to have the software installed on the user machine. Thus, if the user accepts the agreement without reading it, he or she will unknowingly accept all the regulations mentioned in the EULA. Consequently, this study emphasizes that the EULA can be used to classify the software as spyware or legitimate by using data mining algorithms. We validate our approach by implementing an application and compare it with existing EULA analysis tools.
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