Boffins in Microsoft Research has pulled the covers off Project Freta, a free service aimed at spotting memory malfeasance.
A technology demonstration named for the street in Warsaw, Poland where Marie Curie was born, Freta comes from the NExT Security Ventures (NSV) team and is all about taking a VM snapshot and scanning the volatile memory for signs of nefarious behaviour.
Smile, you've been snapped
By working on a captured image and not interacting with the OS, Microsoft reckons the project has a better chance of identifying malware before the offending code can cover its tracks (and potentially destroy data.) The snapshot approach also means there is no need for agents ..
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