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Published online 1 December 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051128-11
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How to immunize your computer
Model shows viruses can be beaten at their own game.
Malicious computer viruses could be stopped in their tracks by immunity software that spreads faster than the virus itself, says a team of computer experts from Israel.
Their proposal relies on setting up a network of shortcuts through the Internet that only antiviral programs can use, allowing them to immunize computers before a virus arrives.
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