MalSEIRS: Forecasting Malware Spread Based on Compartmental Models in Epidemiology

Table 3

Initial parameters of the model for the experiments.

Parameter	Description	Value
	Malware initial propagation rate	0.8
	Parameter for infection rate (Equation (6))	1
	Machine unavailability rate provoked by other causes	0.1
	Machine unavailability rate provoked by malware	0.2
	Parameter for recovered rate (Equation (7))	5
	Malware execution rate	0.9
	Immunization rate	0.46
	Birth susceptibility rate	0.1
	Number of new nodes	1
	Parameter to control strength of damping in loss of immunity rate	0.1
	Parameter to control time of oscillations in loss of immunity rate	1