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vijayind
October 9th, 2008, 05:04 PM
As per CNet :
-{ Quote: "Berryman said using a built-in hypervisor would allow Symantec to set up a buffer to screen and intercept code before it is run on the virtual machine on a user's computer.

"Whenever a machine asks for some code, before you give it to them, you would give it to us, and we will scan against 47,000-plus virus definitions, and if it looks like a virus, we can inject our agent into that machine and kill the processes, and delete the files associated with that," he said.
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Full Article:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10062326-83.html

337
October 10th, 2008, 12:17 PM
Sounds like virtual cloud computing.. Big brother will be watching with his all seeing eye... for better or worse... :-\