Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:

> [...]was originally filed 26 September 1995 and MIMEsweeper was definitely
being publicly talked about in terms of using it as an Email gateway 
virus scanning service earler than that, as this archived Usenet post 
from 3 July 1995 clearly shows:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.security.misc/browse_thread/thread/7
2827a6c05f2853d/d74f6ab12ce7251e?lnk=st&q=#d74f6ab12ce7251e
>

Not that I wanted to keep this thread alive, but Nick sucked me
back in... :-)

Was MIMEsweeper a plug-in for ccMail (as I assume from the
Usenet post you refer to above)?

The '600 patent, as I understand it, is unique in that it
qualifies the AV mitigation as being done by a gateway device
(a la what we now call an "appliance", a la "proxy server") and
not by a software solution (AV) atop another application (an SMTP
server, in this instance).

Of course, I could be wrong -- I am not a lawyer.

And I'm quite happy to let the lawyers worry about this stuff and
get back to work chasing real criminals.

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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