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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2001
Lee Codel Lawson Tarbotton, Leicester, GB;
James Malcolm Vignoles, Aylesbury, GB;
Christopher Andrew Barton, Buckingham, GB;
Lee Codel Lawson Tarbotton, Leicester, GB;
James Malcolm Vignoles, Aylesbury, GB;
Christopher Andrew Barton, Buckingham, GB;
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Pre-emptive malware scanning of user specified operating systemdefined storage locations is performed to establish whether those storage locations contain any malware containing computer files. If the storage locations are malware-free, then they are classified as clean storage locations and subsequent read accesses to those storage locations will be permitted without requiring further malware scanning. Writes to clean storage locations will continue to be malware scanned.