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IBM to Cure Computer Viruses over the Internet.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1997 by Wasserman, Elizabeth
Oct. 4--New computer viruses are proliferating at an unprecedented rate due to the rapid transfer of data over the Internet, but researchers at IBM have devised a way to fight fire with fire.
They're using the Internet to distribute the "cure" even faster than the disease is transmitted.
At a computer virus conference in San Francisco this week, researchers from IBM's Watson Research Lab in New York unveiled technology that can detect and diagnose viruses -- a computer virus is software that can replicate itself and often causes harm to electronic data -- and instantaneously distribute a prescription to kill the virus around the Net.
"It's the first anti-virus system that's faster than a virus can spread," said Steve White, head...
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