
1st March, 2005, 09:56 PM
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| better late than never just browsing net4nowt and i find this interesting article, i know its a bit out of date, but just thought you guys might be interested in it, and i have seen any discussion on it... Quote: |
Originally Posted by Net4Nowt Researchers at BT have developed a monitoring tool that identifies viruses carried by e-mail which have, as yet, remained undetectable by existing anti-virus systems.
The tool, VENUS (which stands for Viral Email Network Utilization Symptomizer) monitors the intranet email for symptoms of any new and unknown viruses that have penetrated normal anti-virus defences by identifying previously unknown behaviour, and then proactively prevents their spread within the company.
Furthermore, once VENUS detects that a computer is infected, it will automatically prevent the user from sending further e-mails, until the root cause has been identified and fixed. | get the rest here http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/new...p?News_ID=2728
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