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The wide spread of Internet in addition to the wide range of applications that use it, has opened new realms for the virus creators. As a result, during the past years, the dangers that computer viruses are exposing users are becoming more and more serious. In addition we do not have only computer viruses, but a big family of malicious software, which is spreading in range and numbers. The targets that most of these malware have is depicted in table 1.
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Patsakis, C., Alexandris, N. (2010). Intelligent Host Discovery from Malicious Software. In: Tsihrintzis, G.A., Virvou, M., Jain, L.C. (eds) Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13355-8_8
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