A few media sources seem to be picking up a press release from the University of Michigan.
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6666 This reports on "CloudAV," a project and series of papers about having antivirus detection run "in the cloud" rather than on the PC. http://www.eecs.umich.edu/fjgroup/cloudav/ As usual, there seems to be some misunderstanding about what is going on here. CloudAV is not really a new approach, it is simply the use of multiple scanners, which the AV research community has advocated for years. It's like having a bunch of scanners installed on your desktop, or a system like Virustotal, with the exception that the scanners run on different computers so you get a bit of performance advantage (absent the bandwidth lag/drain for submitting files to multiple systems). ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
