Malware represents a significant problem that threatens the security of computer systems. Spyware is one of the recent types of malware that represents a serious threat to confidentiality. The traditional approaches using signature-based to detect spyware programs fails in detecting new and unknown spyware. Many of the malware detection techniques which work well in detecting malware are not investigated in terms of spyware detection. In this research, we investigate the spyware detection by using data mining techniques based on mining Application Programming Interface (API) calls. 2084...
Malware represents a significant problem that threatens the security of computer systems. Spyware is one of the recent types of malware that represent...