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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2002
Christopher Andrew Barton, Buckingham, GB;
Graham Andrew Clarke, Aylesbury, GB;
Simon Crowe, Milton Keynes, GB;
Christopher Andrew Barton, Buckingham, GB;
Graham Andrew Clarke, Aylesbury, GB;
Simon Crowe, Milton Keynes, GB;
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A request for secure data sent from a client computerto a webtsite server computeris redirected to a proxy computer. A secure connection is established with the proxy computerusing a protocol such as HTTP and Certificate Exchange. The proxy computerthen establishes its own secure connection with the website server. The data requested is passed in encrypted form from the website server computerto the proxy computer. The proxy computerdecrypts this data and then scans it for illegal content, such as computer viruses, worms, Trojans, banned computer files, banned words, banned combinations of words or banned images and the like. Providing no illegal content is found, the data is encrypted again for transfer over the secure link between the proxy computerand the client computer. The proxy computermay conveniently be the firewall computer within a local area network.