"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ― Robert Frost
Let us show you the road less traveled.
Over the course of a single year the web sites you visit can make 10s of millions of references to sites on the web you did not ask for. Resources like fonts, pictures, videos, advertisements, JavaScript, etc. Any of these could be compromised and infect your computer or your network without you ever knowing that anything happened. A popup that asks for permission to use cookies or asks you to create an account could be compromised and as soon as you interact with it you are infected.
We here at The Zeldaserver Project have been browsing the web with a Zeldaserver Antimalware Server since 2008. In all that time we have not seen a single computer get infected while using it. This requires two things. A Zeldaserver Antimalware Server and You! We will show you how this alliance works.
In the Year 2008, like many others, we were dealing with the growing frequency of malware infections. Despite multiple layers of Antimalware projection, it was only getting worse. At first, it was a yearly event. Then it became a monthly event and then a weekly event. We desperately needed a solution, but there was nothing out there that we could use to solve this problem. So, absent a viable solution, we created our own. And that has made all the difference!
It was at this point that we created the first Zeldaserver Antimalware Server and the solution was born. We knew we needed to get to the root of the problem in a way that would cripple what the malware was doing. To this end, we took a few technologies that already existed, and we combined them together to create the first Zeldaserver. Having a long history as system integrators, this was right up our alley. Our solution created an isolated environment, a Dead Zone, where we could safely browse the web and just as we believed it may, it worked! In fact, within every network where we installed a Zeldaserver Antimalware Server we saw the malware problem come to a sudden and complete stop. And it did not come back! Yet, there is more...
The existence of the Dead Zone, provided by the Zeldaserver Antimalware Server, combined with the way the users applied it to their web browsing was more than the malware could overcome. As it turned out, it was the cognitive relationship, the alliance, between the user and the Zeldaserver that proved to be the critical element that made the Antimalware Server work.
No other solution makes use of this cognitive relationship!
In the beginning, we did not see this alliance for the critical element that it was. This alliance split the user's web browsing and put the critical activity on the local computer and everything else was done within this Dead Zone on the Zeldaserver. This division of the activity served to remove the risk from the local computer and to keep it clean. When all the users on a network are doing this, the entire network will stay clean. We were absolutely amazed at how well this worked. And it works today just as well as it did back then. Hundreds of thousands of hours of web browsing have not altered this result.
In 1951, David Wheeler became the first person to be awarded a Ph.D in Computer Science. Dr. Wheeler is famous for stating the following:
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of abstraction.” ― Dr. David Wheeler
This is exactly what we have done. We have used the Zeldaserver Antimalware Server, and its relationship with "You", to create a layer of abstraction. This new layer allows us to get to the root of the problem and, in doing so, we have removed these malicious actors as a threat. The process of executing this abstraction requires a cognitive relationship (an alliance) between the "You" and the Zeldaserver. No other solution to this problem has ever tried to involve the user so intimately in the solution. The Zeldaserver solution only works because of this alliance.
A very simple analogy for this relationship and how it works is a car and its driver. Here the car is the Zeldaserver, and you are the driver. The safe operation of a car is primarily dependent upon the driver. The vast majority, 80%, of all traffic accidents are the result of driver error.
We have to see the internet as a dangerous place within which we must operate with caution. Just as we must do the same when we operate a motor vehicle. We can still see to our every need, but we do it with care. When we all do this, the road becomes much safer for everyone. When all the users of a Zeldaserver Antimalware Server do this, your business network will stay clean.
In Cybersecurity, this is known as “Awareness”. Know what you are doing and, in the process, make decisions that make it safer to do. The use of a Zeldaserver solution is a constant exercise in awareness training. The ramifications of which keep a network clean.
Technology alone cannot solve this problem. Only through this alliance of "You" and a Zeldaserver, can this problem be solved.
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For more than thirty years, people have been producing malware. Within this same period of time, many different technologies have emerged to try and protect us from this growing malicious invasion. Despite the very best of efforts, the world of malicious software has only grown larger by the year.
There are more than half a million new malicious programs discovered every day. This is why we are losing. We are being overrun. What this problem needs is a major paradigm shift. In other words, we need to greatly change the way we think about a possible solution. Something that cuts to the root of the problem and disrupts the very premise upon which it operates. What do these malicious programs need to infect your computer? They need "You"! They need "You" to trust them. Let me explain.
Trust + Vulnerability = Exploitation
We "Trust" the computer to be clean when one out of every three computers is infected with malware.
We "Trust" our technology to be secure when all technology, by definition, is vulnerable.
We "Trust" the internet to be safe to use when it is more like a walk through a minefield.
So how do we solve this problem? If the "Vulnerability" will always be there, then the only thing we can influence is the "Trust". If we break down the "Trust", then there can be no "Exploitation". This we can do! This is what makes the alliance between "You" and the Zeldaserver so critical to solving this problem.
Technology "alone" cannot overcome "Trust"... The alliance between "You" and a Zeldaserver can!
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The alliance between You and a Zeldaserver Antimalware Server is the “sine qua non”, or the Linchpin, of what makes the use of this solution successful. Not only are you trying to protect your work environment from these malicious programs, but you also have critical online relationships that could be very harmful to your business if they were to be exploited by one of these bad actors. The alliance between You and a Zeldaserver will keep your computers clean and protect your work environment.
A Zeldaserver Antimalware Server allows for a duality in your browsing activity. It is your job to discern between that which is critical and needs to be protected and that which does not. Everything that you discern as critical should be done from the local computer. Everything else should be done from the Zeldaserver. In the Dead Zone.
The use of the Dead Zone will remove about 80% of your web browsing from your local computer. This, in turn, removes the vast majority of the risk. The 20% that remains on the local computer should be everything you do on the web that you want to protect. This separation, by "You", will place everything that would put you at risk in the Dead Zone. This will create a clean environment from which everyone may work and freely perform all the work that the business needs. As a side effect, we have found a great reduction in non-work-related use of the internet. In part, because it makes people realize that the internet is no playground.
Now, intuitively, this may feel backward. Many will want to think that the Dead Zone is where that which they want to protect should occur, but this is wrong. Think of the Dead Zone like a black hole where these malicious actors are swallowed up and never make it to your work environment. The 80% that is the non-critical web browsing that you do will contain almost 100% of your risk. This 80/20 split keeps your local computer clean so that you may use it for what you discern as critical.
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A Zeldaserver Antimalware Server creates a Dead Zone. Any malware that finds its way into this Dead Zone is completely isolated from anyone, or anything. This Dead Zone is completely foreign to the malware. It does not expect to find itself in such a place.
Let's say this in another way...
From where you are, you can see and use the Dead Zone. From the Dead Zone, nothing can see you or even know that you exist. This is a very different experience for the malware. One that it is not built to overcome.
This Dead Zone protects you and everything else your business is doing from anything malicious that may have found its way into it. These bad actors find themselves marooned in the Dead Zone.
Imagine this…
Imagine you went to sleep where you do every night. When you wake up, not only could you not see, but you were in a completely different place. All of your assumptions about where things are located and what those things are would be completely futile. This is what the Dead Zone does to the Malware.
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Joseph Hillarie Pierre Rene Belloc was born July 27, 1870, and died July 16, 1953. He was a prolific English author during the early twentieth century. Despite his life vastly proceeding the age of the computer, he had a keen insight into technology and its relationship with man.
“The machine does not control the mind of man, though it does affect the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.” ― Joseph Belloc
A Zeldaserver solution is an alliance between Man and Machine. Each user of a Zeldaserver must draw a line between that activity on the web that is critical and must be protected and that which is not. The discernment of this line will, and should, be in a different place for each user and this discernment is free to change as the needs of the user change.
This dynamic discernment by the user cannot be achieved by any technology. It is only this critical alliance between Man and Machine that is able to do this.
This alliance combines reason (your thinking), self-discipline (your control), and authority (your command) with the technology to produce the critical aspect of a solution that is able to overcome a long-standing problem. In other words, it gives you the tools to be in control and make the decisions that actually solve this problem. This is why this alliance works and technology alone will not.