Malware: Fighting Malicious Code

Chapter 4. Malicious Mobile Code

"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly;"'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you may spy;The way into my parlor is up a winding stair,And I have many curious things to show when you are there."

—“The Spider and the Fly,” a poem by Mary Howitt, 1804

An environment in which systems are connected to each other over a network is tremendously powerful. Such infrastructure can bring vast amounts of information to our fingertips, speed up order processing, enable collaboration among individuals throughout the globe, and provide numerous other benefits that we enjoy by the virtue of being connected to the Internet. Malicious software, too, can take advantage of easy network access and pervasive ...