HP says 'virus throttling' software could slow spread of computer worms

HP says 'virus throttling' software could slow spread of computer worms
Rachel Konrad, The Associated Press 2004-11-30

Engineers at Hewlett-Packard Co. are working on "virus throttling" software that could slow the spread of viruses and worms, possibly limiting the destruction that hackers inflict on millions of computers each year.

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HP says 'virus throttling' software could slow spread of computer worms 2004-12-01
Anonymous

Repackaged Ideas 2004-12-01
Hytham

Why not simply deploy Labrea's TCP Tar Pit on your perimeter or internal to your network and prevent further propagation? It's far more effective by actually locking the scans and limiting their bandwidth capabilities to almost NULL then to

As much as I hate to say it, MS XP SP2 also provides rate limiting on the amount of syn segments sent rendering a virus' capability to scan large IP segements uselsess ... yes I know you can hack the tcpip.sys file and change that, and I too realize that not all viruses propagate via tcp, but virus writers are not very ... creative.

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