ferg to me: > >[...]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... :-)
Hehehehe -- it's all part of an evil scheme... > Was MIMEsweeper a plug-in for ccMail (as I assume from the > Usenet post you refer to above)? Kind of, but... > 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. ...I think you're wrong. As i vaguely recall and from reading between the lines of the above (and other, later, such Usenet posts) MIMEsweeper was originally a plug- in for ccMail and some other mail server (and they were working on Exchaneg and other versions, including (eventually) a "standalone" one), BUT you had to set up a separate "dummy" server _which was effectively a gateway_. Yes, they did it in software layered on other software, but just because Trend called theirs a "gateway device" doesn't mean Trend weren't doing it in their own software layered n other software on hardware. > And I'm quite happy to let the lawyers worry about this stuff ... I'd rather they just go f*&k themselves and leave the rest of us a lot happier... > ... and > get back to work chasing real criminals. Hear, hear... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ 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.
