Symantec Patents Multiple File Area Virus Scanning

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 3, 2005 @03:02AM from the kind-of-a-broad-area dept.

DigitumDei writes "Symantec announced on Wednesday that it has aquired a new patent (United States Patent - 6,851,057) titled "Data driven detection of viruses". Symantec has declined to comment on whether it will pursue litigation. Symantec's director of intellectual property Michael Schallop stated : 'We don't generally discuss how we will leverage this patent against competitors or others,'." From the article: "[The patent] could refer to any technology that allows antivirus researchers or antivirus products to use scripting to determine, dynamically, where in a file to scan and detect threats. It could also include the use of Javascript or other common scripting languages to direct antivirus scanning..."

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Good for Symantec by wheelbarrow · 2005-03-03 03:05 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Symantec deserves to profit from their hard won intellectual property. The investors and employees of Symantec have taken enormous financial risks by investing in this business. There was a high probability of failure when they started. Now the public has benefitted from having their anti-virus tools protecting their computers and the Symantec investors have been rewarded for investing in a long shot.