{"id":3848,"date":"2005-12-02T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2005-12-02T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T16:35:06","slug":"fighting-computer-viruses-like-flies-to-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/fighting-computer-viruses-like-flies-to-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Computer Viruses, Like Flies to Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\">A cure for computer viruses that spreads in a viral fashion could immunise the internet, even against pests that travel at lightning speed, a mathematical study reveals.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Some researchers have developed artificial &#8220;immune systems&#8221; that automatically analyse a virus meaning a fix can be sent out more rapidly. In practise, however, computer viruses still tend to spread too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Now Eran Shir, and colleagues at Tel-Aviv University in Israeli, have applied network theory to the problem, and believe they have come up with a more effective solution.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem, the researchers say, is that countermeasures sent from a central server over the same network as the virus it is pursuing will always be playing catch-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8403\" class=\"external external_icon\">They propose developing a network of &#8220;honeypot&#8221; computers, distributed across the internet and dedicated to the task of combating viruses<\/a>. To a virus, these machines would seem like ordinary vulnerable computers. But the honeypots would attract a virus, analyse it automatically, and then distribute a countermeasure. <\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8403\" class=\"external external_icon\">new scientist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cure for computer viruses that spreads in a viral fashion could immunise the internet, even against pests that travel at lightning speed, a mathematical study reveals. [&#8230;] Some researchers have developed artificial &#8220;immune systems&#8221; that automatically analyse a virus meaning a fix can be sent out more rapidly. In practise, however, computer viruses still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}