Star Microsoft Research Builds 'BrowserShield'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Sep 2006 21:38 UTC
Internet Explorer Microsoft researchers are experimenting with an automatic code zapper for the company's Internet Explorer Web browser. Researchers at the company have completed work on a prototype framework called BrowserShield that promises to allow IE to intercept and remove, on the fly, malicious code hidden on Web pages, instead showing users safe equivalents of those pages.
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RE: IE7
by postmodern on Tue 5th Sep 2006 23:32 UTC in reply to "IE7"
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2006-01-27

This is not security.
This is a bandaide.

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RE[2]: IE7
by BluenoseJake on Wed 6th Sep 2006 15:54 in reply to "RE: IE7"
BluenoseJake Member since:
2005-08-11

No, I'd say it's more like an antibody, eliminating threats as they enter the system, will it work? I don't know, but this could be added to your firewall and protect everything, not just IE. I wouldn't call it a bandaid at all

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RE[2]: IE7
by PJBonoVox on Wed 6th Sep 2006 21:51 in reply to "RE: IE7"
PJBonoVox Member since:
2006-08-14

I don't agree that this is a bandaid.

To some extent, having smaller 'security' modules abstracted from the program itself allows much easier and quicker patching.

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