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Misuse Detection of New Malicious Emails

A serious security threat today is malicious emails, arriving as email attachments. An email virus is an email that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a replication of it. When the infected emails are opened, the email virus spreads itself to others. Today’s society has seen a dramatic increase in the use of emails. We present a novel approach to detect misuse emails by gathering and maintaining knowledge of the behavior of the malicious emails rather than anticipating attacks by unknown assailants.