Microsoft's Rozzle bolsters drive-by malware defences

[Dermot7]

Microsoft researchers have shown off a new anti-malware tool which could be used to defeat so-called drive-by attacks, where users' computers are infected without them actively installing rogue software

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/21786...lware-defences

[Kees1958]

Originally Posted by Dermot7

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/21786...lware-defences

I can clearly see a pattern nozzle zozzle http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/nozzle/

Surprisingly a simular approach has been investigated by Trend Micro, but this Browser Guard project seems abondonned

[funkydude]

Nice, wonder if it ever ends up in MSE/Defender or even a lighter version in IE.

[Kees1958]

Well it all has to happen in the javascript virtual machine, so it would be in the browser.