TY - GEN
T1 - ZapDroid
T2 - 3rd ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2015
AU - Singh, Indrajeet
AU - Krishnamurthy, Srikanth V.
AU - Madhyastha, Harsha V.
AU - Neamtiu, Iulian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ACM 978-1-4503-3574-4/15/09..15.00.
PY - 2015/9/7
Y1 - 2015/9/7
N2 - User surveys have shown that a typical user has over a hundred apps on her smartphone [1], but stops using many of them. We conduct a user study to identify such unused apps, which we call zombies, and show via experiments that zombie apps consume significant resources on a user's smartphone and access her private information. We then design and build ZapDroid, which enables users to detect and silo zombie apps in an effective way to prevent their undesired activities. If and when the user wishes to resume using such an app, ZapDroid restores the app quickly and effectively. Our evaluations show that: (i) ZapDroid saves twice the energy from unwanted zombie app behaviors as compared to apps from the Play Store that kill background unwanted processes, and (ii) it effectively prevents zombie apps from using undesired permissions. In addition, ZapDroid is energye efficient, consuming < 4% of the battery per day.
AB - User surveys have shown that a typical user has over a hundred apps on her smartphone [1], but stops using many of them. We conduct a user study to identify such unused apps, which we call zombies, and show via experiments that zombie apps consume significant resources on a user's smartphone and access her private information. We then design and build ZapDroid, which enables users to detect and silo zombie apps in an effective way to prevent their undesired activities. If and when the user wishes to resume using such an app, ZapDroid restores the app quickly and effectively. Our evaluations show that: (i) ZapDroid saves twice the energy from unwanted zombie app behaviors as compared to apps from the Play Store that kill background unwanted processes, and (ii) it effectively prevents zombie apps from using undesired permissions. In addition, ZapDroid is energye efficient, consuming < 4% of the battery per day.
KW - Energy
KW - Privacy
KW - Smartphones
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U2 - 10.1145/2750858.2807550
DO - 10.1145/2750858.2807550
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84960926662
T3 - UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
SP - 1185
EP - 1196
BT - UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 7 September 2015 through 11 September 2015
ER -