Intel gets into AV?

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1954175,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594


Intel wants to lay a virtual trap for hackers. The chip maker, which
launched its vPro brand for business desktops April 24, aims to
increase PC security by stepping up the vPro machines' abilities to
proactively guard against malware. The company will employ
virtualization technology—which can partition a PC to run different
types of software simultaneously—to set up a new type of security
checkpoint inside each machine. That checkpoint, which is expected to
be the first of its kind for client PCs when it arrives in vPro
Professional PCs in the third quarter, can guard a machine by
monitoring network traffic into it and intervening if it exhibits
behavior patterns consistent with an infection. "We had to come up
with some better, more proactive, more intelligent [and] more
automated ways to defend our systems," said Gregory Bryant, general
manager for the Digital Office Platforms Group at Intel, in Santa
Clara, Calif. Setting up the security checkpoint involves using an
Intel-written virtualization program to create a separate security
partition that stands between the network and the PC's OS,
applications and data to stop malware before it reaches the more
sensitive areas, Bryant said.

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This cant turn out well IMO

-JP

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