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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:
Feb. 16, 2010

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2001
Applicants:

Chris A. Barton, Buckingham, GB;

James M. Vignoles, Aylesbury, GB;

James W. Lawrence, Aylesbury, GB;

Inventors:

Chris A. Barton, Buckingham, GB;

James M. Vignoles, Aylesbury, GB;

James W. Lawrence, Aylesbury, GB;

Assignee:

McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G08B 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system, method and computer program product are provided for scanning data. Initially, a request is received from a central processing unit for reading data saved in storage. The requested data is then scanned. If malicious code is not found in the data during the scanning, the data is transmitted from the storage to the central processing unit. In a similar manner, a request is received for data to be written in storage. In response to the request, the requested data is scanned. If malicious code is not found in the data during the scanning, data is written to the storage.


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