Ever since the network-based malicious code commonly known as a 'worm' surfaced in the early part of the 1980's, its prevalence has grown more and more. The RCS (Random Constant Spreading) worm has become a dominant, malicious virus in recent computer networking circles. The worm retards the availability of an overall network by exhausting resources such as CPU capacity, network peripherals and...

ISBN 555555555/$10.00  2004 IEEE Abstract – Malicious worms have presented a formidable threat to the security community in recent years. Beginners to internet security research require an understanding of the inner workings of worms. A simple research worm designed to run on a test network facilitates this understanding. This worm is also useful to researchers needing see how a typical worm w...

BACKGROUND Prior studies of twins reared together suggest that regular tobacco use (RTU) is substantially heritable. However, strong social influences on RTU might have biased these results. METHODS We examine the self-report lifetime history of RTU in members of 778 male-male and female-female twin pairs, raised together and apart, born from 1890 to 1958 and ascertained through the populatio...

This paper presents a new STAKCERT KDD processes for worm detection. The enhancement introduced in the data-preprocessing resulted in the formation of a new STAKCERT model for worm detection. In this paper we explained in detail how all the processes involved in the STAKCERT KDD processes are applied within the STAKCERT model for worm detection. Based on the experiment conducted, the STAKCERT m...

According to the features of worm propagation, a novel model for proactive worm prevention based on peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technologies is proposed in this paper. At first, we present the backgrounds and security issues related to P2P networks. Then, a structured P2P overlay network designed for worm prevention is specified. Based on that, we present the methods for Internet worm forecas...

We survey the protein folds in the worm genome, using pairwise and multiple-sequence comparison methods (i.e. FASTA and PSI-blast). Overall, we find that approximately 250 folds match approximately 8000 domains in approximately 4500 ORFs, about 32 matches per fold involving a quarter of the total worm ORFs. We compare the folds in the worm genome to those in other model organisms, in particular...

Network attacks such as computer virus and worms that scan computers randomly have caused billions of dollars in damage to enterprises across the Internet [Erbschloe M., 2005]. There are different worm detection techniques. [Guofei, G., 2004] classified them according to the worm characteristic used by detection technique. One approach is using worm signatures, it depends on the identical or si...

We recently showed that social encounter stimulation induces hyperactivity in mice reared in social isolation from early life and this is associated with the transient activation of prefrontal dopaminergic and serotonergic systems. In the present study, we examined the effect of the α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) receptor antagonist 2, 3-dioxo-6-nitro-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahy...

Retinal light damage in dark-reared rats supplemented with ascorbic acid and exposed to multiple doses of intermittent light was studied and compared with damage in unsupplemented dark-reared and cyclic-light-reared rats. The extent of photoreceptor cell loss from intense light exposure was determined by whole-eye rhodopsin levels and retinal DNA measurements two weeks after light treatment. Tw...

Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) produce numerous vocalizations, including the acoustically complex chick-a-dee call that is composed of A, B, C, and D notes. D notes are longer in duration and lower in frequency than the other note types and contain information regarding flock and species identification. Adult wild-caught black-capped chickadees have been shown to have similar am...