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Microsoft To Automate Malware Classification
Kuzulu Kuhuru writes "Researchers in Microsoft's anti-malware engineering team are using distance measure and machine learning technologies to automate the process of classifying new strains of computer viruses, Trojans and other malicious software programs." From the article: "Microsoft's proposal will take a 'holistic approach' to tackle the classification problem, Lee said, pointing out that the machine learning aspects will deal with everything, from knowledge consumption, representation and storage, to classifier model generation and selection. It aims to consume knowledge about the malware sample efficiently and automatically and represent that knowledge in a form that results in minimal information loss. "
I have every reason to be confident that this will work exactly as proposed with no problems whatsoever. After all, it's coming from Microsoft.
This guy's the limit!
To build better a/v solutions, classify spyware, etc etc etc.
Why not just, you know, FIX YOUR FUCKING OS BILL!
Nuke anything with the letters "G," "P," and "L" together in a row.
Just once I'd like to see mickysoft put out a product that isn't riddled with bugs, holes and the like!