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. "

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I wonder...

[AlgorithMan]

classifying new strains of computer viruses, Trojans and other malicious software programs.
I wonder how it would classify Windows XP and Vista... Spyware I guess...

but seriously - this would all be unneccessary if ms were able to develop an OS instead of swiss cheese... or people would stop using the swiss cheese...