http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 152434.htmAntivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan.
well Aitch i've been using cloud antivirus for about 6 months now on my wife's XP pc and clients XP computers, and let me tell you its very lite and works very well, plus its free.Aitch wrote:Old news, just foundhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 152434.htmAntivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan.
Aitch
Panda 'Cloud' AV is a naming gimmick for the unwary, methinks, and not quite the same thing, based on their video, at any rateThe researchers' new approach, called CloudAV, moves antivirus functionality into the "network cloud" and off personal computers. CloudAV analyzes suspicious files using multiple antivirus and behavioral detection programs simultaneously.
"CloudAV virtualizes and parallelizes detection functionality with multiple antivirus engines, significantly increasing overall protection," said Farnam Jahanian, professor of computer science and engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Traditional antivirus software that resides on a personal computer checks documents and programs as they are accessed. Because of performance constraints and program incompatibilities, only one antivirus detector is typically used at a time.
CloudAV, however, can support a large number of malicious software detectors that act in parallel to analyze a single incoming file. Each detector operates in its own virtual machine, so the technical incompatibilities and security issues are resolved, Oberheide said.
CloudAV is accessible to any computer or mobile device on the network that runs a simple software agent. Each time a computer or device receives a new document or program, that item is automatically detected and sent to the antivirus cloud for analysis. The CloudAV system the researchers built uses 12 different detectors that act together to tell the inquiring computer whether the item is safe to open.
....is truly become ultra-fragile
Sounds like a bad idea to me. The network should be transparent. Do you really want them to tamper with your data? I don't. And having them look at the data would slow things down and make operating the network more expensive - which means prices would have to be increased. (Though perhaps the resulting decrease in traffic due to less zombie chatter would counter this.)Aitch wrote:I just wish they'd implement AV on the backbone so we don't need AV on each PC....& I'd make it LAW, ....it is a trespass, after all, so I don't know why it's allowed at all....
I gotta agree with Pizzasgood on this one.Pizzasgood wrote:Sounds like a bad idea to me. The network should be transparent. Do you really want them to tamper with your data? I don't. And having them look at the data would slow things down and make operating the network more expensive - which means prices would have to be increased. (Though perhaps the resulting decrease in traffic due to less zombie chatter would counter this.)Aitch wrote:I just wish they'd implement AV on the backbone so we don't need AV on each PC....& I'd make it LAW, ....it is a trespass, after all, so I don't know why it's allowed at all....
Not to mention privacy issues. How do you think they would implement this? Deep packet inspection. And hey, as long as they're looking closely at and tampering with the data, why not go beyond AV?
