Gotta Catch 'Em All! Innoculous: Enabling Epidemiology of Computer Viruses in the Developing World

Gotta Catch 'Em All! Innoculous: Enabling Epidemiology of Computer Viruses in the Developing World, Paik, M. (2011, June). In Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions, 51-56. ACM.

Computer users in the developing world are faced with myriad challenges, from limited bandwidth to higher costs of usage and ownership. However, among the most pernicious problems is the prevalence of computer viruses, which have immediate and unexpected economic costs, often to those who are least able to bear the burden of such costs…in this paper I present Innoculous, a system consisting of a specially crafted USB key, software, and an incentivization strategy aimed towards disinfecting infected machines…

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