CloudAV

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

A few media sources seem to be picking up a press release from the University of 
Michigan.

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6666

This reports on "CloudAV," a project and series of papers about having antivirus 
detection run "in the cloud" rather than on the PC.

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/fjgroup/cloudav/

As usual, there seems to be some misunderstanding about what is going on here.  
CloudAV is not really a new approach, it is simply the use of multiple scanners, 
which the AV research community has advocated for years.  It's like having a 
bunch of scanners installed on your desktop, or a system like Virustotal, with the 
exception that the scanners run on different computers so you get a bit of 
performance advantage (absent the bandwidth lag/drain for submitting files to 
multiple systems).

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