Propagation Model for a Mass-Mailing Worm with Mailing List

Mass-mail type worms have threatened to become a large problem for the Internet because of its amount and surviving property. Although many researchers have analyzed such worms, there are few studies that consider worm propagation via networks and mailing list. In this paper, we present a massmailing type worm propagation model including how the use of a mailing list could affect the propagation. We study the propagation through simulation with a model of an actual e-mail social network. We show that the impact of the mailing list on the mass-mail worm’s propagation is significant, even if the mailing list is not large. 1. は じ め に

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