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Microsoft Research Builds ‘BrowserShield’

Posted by Jack Cook on September 5, 2006 – 7:08 pm  Share
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Ryan Naraine from eWeek put up a neat article about Microsoft researchers experimenting with an automatic code zapper for the company’s Internet Explorer Web browser.

Researchers at the Redmond, Wash., company have completed work on a prototype framework called BrowserShield that promises to allow IE to intercept and remove, on the fly, malicious code hidden on Web pages, instead showing users safe equivalents of those pages.

The BrowserShield project—the brainchild of Helen Wang, a project leader in Microsoft Research’s Systems & Networking Research Group, and an outgrowth of the company’s Shield initiative to block network worms—could one day even become Microsoft’s answer to zero-day browser exploits such as the WMF (Windows Metafile) attack that spread like wildfire in December 2005.

Check out the rest of Ryan’s article by clicking on the link below…you will find it very interesting.

Source: Microsoft Research Builds ‘BrowserShield’

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