Polaris: virus-safe computing for Windows XP

  • Authors:
  • Marc Stiegler;Alan H. Karp;Ka-Ping Yee;Tyler Close;Mark S. Miller

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA;University of California, Berkeley;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Privacy and security in highly dynamic systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It limits the damage a virus can do by using the operating system's own security mechanisms to enforce the Principle of Least Authority on individual applications.