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HP Shelves Virus Throttler Program

Posted by timothy on from the simply-too-arcane-and-complicated dept.

longlanekid writes "Though HP has apparently designed a great program for slowing the spread/proliferation of virii and reducing the impact of DoS attacks, it's all being shelved due to Windows incompatibilities."

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  1. Need more details... by Nos. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd like to know what the problems are with Windows machines. If you're router/gateway/firewall is limiting outgoing connections, your OS should be able to handle it. Even if it does cause problems, how often does the throttle kick in where there isn't a worm/virus present on the host machine? If this false positive rate is low enough then I'd implement it anyways.

  2. Anti-P2P Tool by SkunkAh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm afraid that this tool will also affect P2P tools which connect to many hosts every second aswell. Novice users will stop using P2P cause they don't understand why it isn't working.

  3. In other news..... by Concrete+Nomad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In other news a cure for cancer and AIDS is quietly being shelved. The medical wonder has incompatibilities with most HMOs . Maybe I just don't see the point or perhaps the technology really wasn't all that good.

  4. Re:Wait just a minute... by interiot · · Score: 5, Insightful
    And how long will it take until one of the smarter virus writers writes a patch for tcpip.sys, after which the hoard of stupid virus writers just include that in their programs?

    The throttling functionality really needs to reside on the router side, on routers that don't run Windows. Then every joe-shmoe virus/worm won't be able to bypass it easily.