New strategy against computer viruses
Text created by automatic translator Elia and has not been subsequently revised by translators. Elia Elhuyar
Since computers are connected, the most direct and effective way to spread viruses is email. And when the virus infects the computer, it sends a contaminated mail to all the addresses that are in the mailing list, thus contaminating many computers in a very short time. Last year's Code Red virus, for example, contaminated 300,000 computers in half a day.
Matthew Williamson, a researcher at Hewlett-Packard, has a new vision of the spread of viruses. Its intention is to design a system that slows the spread of the virus. To do this, it is sufficient that when the computer detects that it is sending more messages from the usual ones in a given time, it is interrupted or at least the mail is inactivated.
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