[Mimedefang] More patent stupidity

[No Six]

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 ...

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