Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Aug 2005 16:59 UTC, submitted by Danny
In the future, PCs infected with worms or viruses may try to contain the plague by putting themselves in quarantine. Automatic Network Outbreak Containment was one of a number of future technologies shown off on the final day of the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco.
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Member since:That's precisely my train of thought. This is just going to cause a revolution in the way worms and virii are written. There is very little probability of success when your defense is a system running fixed analysis and the worm/virii can evolve in so many different directions.
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2005-07-06
Just thinking its not that hard to code a virus to use normal traffic patterns. I think the only reason they are not coded that way now is because Virus writers are lazy and or they don't have too. I would bet there are quite a few Trojans/Virii out there now that does just that.