, 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.

Eyal Dotan
This isn't a discussion about replacing AVs. AVs are good in some areas (precise detection of known malware), and weak in other areas (protection of your system from unknown programs & threats).
Virtualization is necessary for securing P2P, Internet downloads,...
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