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Thursday, November 28, 2002
Computer viruses face slow down
Computer viruses could, in the future, find it much harder to spread themselves over the internet. Matthew Williamson, a researcher at the Hewlett-Packard laboratories in Bristol, UK, has come up with a way to slow down the rate of infection. It works by limiting the number of connections at any one time from an infected computer. This has the effect of throttling the spread of the virus, giving technicians time to spot and eliminate the bug.
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