Slashdot Mirror
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. "
Too bad the research isn't being done on ways to prevent malware. Apple could make good use of this: "Windows has so many viruses they need a computer to help sort through them all!"
How long till we get headlines like "Microsoft's Malware Software Deletes Windows after identifying it as a security risk"?
Just once I'd like to see a story run on /. that involves MS that starts a discussion of the issue in the story and not just collection of attacks on MS.
I'm not a big MS fan but it does get old.
Is buying a Harley Davidson as your first motorcycle since you were 16 at age 49 a midlife crisis issue?
Is it just me, or are there more people that think that instead of getting busy automating the process of classifying new strains of computer viruses, Trojans and other malicious software programs, maybe they should address the cause of the problem first?
.NET certified MSCA ratified ninja commando teams to assasinate all those thousands of malware authors and spam kings would be a financially viable proposition for Microsoft. Using a fully automated self classifying system to build a proper threat library which can later be fed to mass manufactured hunter killer bots and android terminators sounds like a much more cost effective approach.
I'm not sure that training enough high class
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
I was reading the slashdot feed on my cell and the title only showed:
microsoft to automate malware
and I went like: wtf! haven't they done enough already?
mind you, not an hour ago I was removing over a hundred pieces of malware that a client had. all of them on just two machines...
I wish I could filter out the annoying Pickens articles...