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Thursday, May 13, 2004
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Viruses Throttling can slow down worms Vinson Kurian
Thiruvananthapuram , May 12 RESEARCHERS from the US and the UK have found a new way to slow viruses and worms. The method, dubbed `throttling', involves limiting the number of new connections a computer can make in a given period of time. This would slow the spread of viruses and worms making it easier to control and eliminate them, says the MIT Technology Review, quoting researchers from the University of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Institute, the University of Michigan and Hewlett-Packard's HP Laboratories in England. According to the researchers' calculations, limiting computers to one new Web server connection per second would slow a virus like Nimda by a factor of 400, but would not adversely affect regular traffic.
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