On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote: : It bears repeating that this is not about prior art in AV scanning, but : rather, doing so on a gateway device (e.g. appliance) which Trend Micro : was the first to do -- hence the patent.
Likewise, bears repeating: If prior art had anti-virus software scanning incoming mail for viruses before passing to the client, but only did so on the SMTP server.. and the TM patent covers an additional device (proxy / appliance / whatever), then that is hardly patent-worthy in many people's opinion. If you disagree, then I should patent a system where the mail is passed to *two* devices before the SMTP server, one which scans for MALWARE since the patent only says 'virus', and the other that scans for viruses. Such a patent can be worded the same as the TM patent, just s/virus/malware and it should be just as valid. Right? _______________________________________________ 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.
