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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jonathan Edwards, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Edmund White, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

Network Associates Technology, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; G06F 1/5173 ; G06F 1/130 ; H04L 1/22 ; H05K 1/000 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; G06F 1/5173 ; G06F 1/130 ; H04L 1/22 ; H05K 1/000 ;
Abstract

The invention provides for on-access scanning of archives, such as “ZIP” files, for files containing viruses or other unwanted characteristics. In particular, disclosed are various techniques for beginning a scanning operation, and then monitoring the scanning operation to determine whether it is completing in a reasonable time. If the scanning operation is taking place within a terminal server type of environment, such as the Microsoft Terminal Server, where an application program is run in a virtual execution environment, then provision is made to identify client connections to the server so that error messages (such as denying file access due to a virus) can be presented to a terminal server client's terminal, rather than at the terminal server console.


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