The HP Labs Virus Safe Computing Initiative

Alan Karp, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

HP Labs encourages activities considered to be out of the mainstream. Our group takes a view of security that is quite different from that of the official HP and HP Labs security teams. This talk will discuss our approach and our primary work on a virus safe computing environment for Windows XP. Surprisingly, we don't require people to turn off their computers to protect themselves. We simply let the virus run in an environment where it can't do very much harm. A demo will be given that shows you don't have to turn off macros or stop opening email attachments to be virus safe.