On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 05:24:50PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/13/HNtrendmicropatent_1.html > > "The Trend Micro patent explains technology that scans e-mail and > Internet data transfers for viruses at gateways and servers, before > the data arrives at a desktop computer." > > Does anyone have prior art for gateway virus scanning prior to 1997? > I don't have so far.
Yes, they scan for viruses but they fail to detect them quickly lately compared to Clam, Kaspersky (check for their updates of WORM_MYTOB.* ). Maybe they prefer to make money through patents ... N�6 _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

