-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Nick FitzGerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[...]was originally filed 26 September 1995 and MIMEsweeper was definitely > being publicly talked about in terms of using it as an Email gateway virus scanning service earler than that, as this archived Usenet post from 3 July 1995 clearly shows: > >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.security.misc/browse_thread/thread/7 2827a6c05f2853d/d74f6ab12ce7251e?lnk=st&q=#d74f6ab12ce7251e > Not that I wanted to keep this thread alive, but Nick sucked me back in... :-) Was MIMEsweeper a plug-in for ccMail (as I assume from the Usenet post you refer to above)? The '600 patent, as I understand it, is unique in that it qualifies the AV mitigation as being done by a gateway device (a la what we now call an "appliance", a la "proxy server") and not by a software solution (AV) atop another application (an SMTP server, in this instance). Of course, I could be wrong -- I am not a lawyer. And I'm quite happy to let the lawyers worry about this stuff and get back to work chasing real criminals. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHoVPoq1pz9mNUZTMRAn/gAKCG2SKkae4xyGT07aeYtlSFDFBV1ACfXLId i6vRuVX3YACGw1S9QpVkC+Q= =UJ1F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
