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Application-level Virtualization for Windows
Federico Biancuzzi, 2006-07-12

Federico Biancuzzi interviews Eyal Dotan, who has developed application-level virtualization software that protects Windows hosts from malware. They discuss the architecture, advantages of this design, performance, and how this method could be applied to servers running Windows or be ported to other OSes.

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Don't need a virus scanner? Not quite.. 2006-07-13
Anonymous (4 replies)
Just because malware is neatly confined into a virtualisation layer doesn't mean you shouldn't try to remove it. Many viruses do nasty things like using all your internet bandwidth (potentially costing money), using 100% cpu to make your computer run like a dog, or spending all their time attacking people as part of a DDoS botnet. Whether they do this in a virtualisation layer or not is somewhat irrelevant.

As clever as this technology is, I think it's going a bit far to say that you don't need a virus scanner any more. You should still try to keep your computer clean from viruses.

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