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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2000
Do K. Kim, Portland, OR (US);
Christopher L. Pearce, Portland, OR (US);
Jeffrey J. Constantine, Portland, OR (US);
Networks Associates Technology, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for a remote or network-based application service offering virus scanning, sniffing, or detecting of e-mail viruses prior to the e-mail messages arriving at the destination system or server are disclosed. The method protects a computer system that is configured to receive an e-mail message addressed to a destination e-mail address from viruses in an incoming e-mail message. The method generally includes receiving the incoming e-mail message at a remote e-mail receiving server, scanning the e-mail message for virus, forwarding the e-mail message if it is clean to a remote e-mail sending server, attempting to clean the e-mail message if it is infected to generate a cleaned e-mail message, forwarding the cleaned e-mail message, if any, to the remote e-mail sending server, and forwarding the clean or cleaned e-mail message, if any, to the destination e-mail address from the remote e-mail sending server. The system generally includes a remote e-mail receiving server for receiving the incoming e-mail message, a virus-detection program for scanning the e-mail message for virus, a remote e-mail virus processing server for attempting to clean the infected e-mail message, and a remote e-mail sending server forwarding the clean or cleaned e-mail message, if any, to the destination e-mail address.