Saturday, January 29, 2011

Hardware based antivirus a reality thanks to Intel

While antivirus software gets updated fairly quickly to oppose even the newest malware, sometimes viruses manage to infect a large amount of computers in just a few hours while the cure is in development process. Intel Corp. said in an interview that it was developing a special purely hardware mechanism that will withstand even unknown malware.

"I think we have some real breakthrough ideas about changing the game in terms of malware. We are going to see a quantum jump in the ability of future devices, be them PCs or phones or tablets or smart TVs, to defend themselves against attacks," said Justin Rattner, chief technology officer of Intel, in an interview with Computerworld web-site.

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