Re: micro-virtualization

Andy Fingerhut <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:22:30 -0700

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On Sep 24, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Raoul Duke wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Karp, Alan H <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yet we did a pretty good job with Polaris (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp/polaris/index.html).
> 
> "In fact, one HP executive used a pre-Alpha version of Polaris for
> three days without knowing it was on his machine."
> 
> uh, so it got installed via trojan? ;-)

Big companies with many Windows computers often run software on them like Altiris to monitor what software has been installed on them, for license compliance, and to install new software on them at the direction of the IT department.  It isn't always obvious when new software is installed in this manner.

Andy