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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. I get it. by Alcimedes · · Score: 5, Funny

    So it throttles Windows in general, thereby slowing the spread of viruses! I like it!

    Take out Windows, and you take out the problem. Go HP!

  2. 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.

    1. Re:Need more details... by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Funny
      I'd like to know what the problems are with Windows machines.
      You must be new here ; )
      --

      "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

  3. My favorite quote.... by Megaslow · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because "we don't own Windows," Redmond says.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Wait just a minute... by ...+James+... · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft introduced similar functionality in Windows XP SP2:

    Limited number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts
    Detailed description

    The TCP/IP stack now limits the number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts. After the limit has been reached, subsequent connection attempts are put in a queue and will be resolved at a fixed rate. Under normal operation, when applications are connecting to available hosts at valid IP addresses, no connection rate-limiting will occur. When it does occur, a new event, with ID 4226, appears in the system's event log.

    --
    get nemulator
    1. 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.

  7. Or they couldn't get it to work.... by Numen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can just see me telling my boss...

    Me: "I had to shelve the clients project, sorry."
    Boss: "Why?!"
    Me: "Incompatabilities with Windows."

    My arse.