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An academic team has developed a prototype system for providing antivirus protection via the Internet. This security-as-a-service approach is an example of cloud computing, an increasingly popular technique in which applications and services are offered via the Internet, rather than via programs loaded onto in-house PCs or servers. The University of Michigan team´s CloudAV system would let users avoid having to keep and update complex antivirus software on their own computers. Instead, security providers would handle this on their systems.