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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. Re:/. worthy? by The+Bungi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Really? That's funny. I have this thing, you know, a software firewall? It intercepts every single network call (heck, it will even plug the loopback if you tell it to) and it works fine, 100% of the time. If it can pop up a dialog asking me if I want ApplicationX to contact a given domain (or IP address) I figure it could also throttle the connection. Any connection.

    I'm pretty sure the people who wrote Tiny Personal Firewall didn't have access to the Windows source code.

    So enlighten me again - what does this have to do with Windows being a "closed proprietary OS" again?

    And BTW, this is something already built into XP, as you can tell from the many comments in this article.

  2. Pre-emptive better than reactive? Sence when? by Derivin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First off, this is not a troll.
    Im my experience it has always been easier to sell reactive solutions to DDoS, worms, and virii.

    Working on OpenVision*SecureMAX and Securify(kerberos) back at OpenVision (bought by veritas, products sold to PlatniumGroup, then who knows where), we had a very very hard time selling our prevenative security software (for all the *nix platforms of the time and Windows NT). Everyone wanted virus removal software. Even when Satan was released, people didn't want to have an audit of which machines were vulnerable in the company.

    I left the computer security buisness back in '97. At which point did it become easier to sell prevenative measures? Was it just this past year or two with all the outbreaks? Or did veritas make a huge mistake is selling off its aquired security products when it did?