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Researchers at Tel Aviv University (Israel) have proposed a plan to eliminate viruses on the Internet with a network of many automated prevention systems. They believe that 'emergency' files from this network will spread faster than attack programs.

The focus of this project is a grid of computers called " honey jars ", designed to pretend to be unpatched PCs and expose viruses. These computers will attract virus attacks and automatically create a signature file of malware, then spread the solution immediately to the entire network. All other "honey jars" in the network will be automatically updated to the emergency file and launched a countermeasure.

The authors of the plan argue that their proposal is not very costly and can be conveniently expanded. The bigger this network is, the more its protection power will be increased. The Tel Aviv University team confirmed that anti-virus files could spread faster than attack programs themselves.

' The biggest drawback of launching programs to prevent spread is more delays than viruses, ' said Eran Shir, co-author of the plan. ' We offer a solution to provide anti-virus' vaccines' in a way that makes' medicine' advantage over 'disease'. In particular, the corrective file can be transmitted quickly over a network that has a reciprocal link and thus allows an antivirus tool to effectively prevent outbreaks . '

Early tests showed that if the protection network had about 50,000 nodes (ie nodes), computers joined the network, and 0.4% of these computers served as " honey jar ", then 5% of the network will be infected before the prevention system can prevent the virus. However, if the network has 200,000,000 nodes with the same rate in the "confidential" role, the infected PC level will be only 0.001%.