McAfee Granted Firewall Patent

BadUspto writes "BetaNews reports that 'The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted software maker McAfee a patent for tracking network events on a computer using a firewall. The patent filing involves tracing the location of an incoming connection and displaying a map showing where the remote system geographically resides.' Doomsday for VisualRoute and others?"

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Re:I'm a little affraid

[SilverspurG]

I fear a world where Microsoft has a patent on "Operating System"

I think it would be "Method of configuring a computer to spread viruses"

In the same train of thought: could one patent a "Method of encoding a self-replicating computer program", release it under a non-transferrable license, and then sue the crap out of everyone who gets infected?