POLARIS: VIRUS-SAFE COMPUTING for Windows XP.
This article reports on ways to limit the amount of damage that can be caused by computer software viruses. The author believes that putting an end to the excess authority that every computer program gets from the operating system is the key to limiting the negative impact of viruses. The author als...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 9; pp. 83 - 89 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Sep2006
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