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IBM's Billy Goat Squashes Worms

Posted by Hemos on from the behavior-based-activity dept.

fr0z writes "InformationWeek is running a story on "Billy Goat", a novel worm-squashing software developed by researchers in Zurich, Switzerland. IBM says it wants to turn Billy Goat into a product to help guard against computer-network attacks such as those that slowed Internet traffic earlier this month."

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  1. Will _he_ sue IBM now? by geek2003 · · Score: 0, Troll

    IBM can collect more data on worm traffic and help decide how to bring Billy Goat to market... Will Billy Gays ,er Gates, now sue IBM for illegally using his name to make money. After all TIBCO sued Apple on Friday for using the term Rendezvous!!