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..."

3 of 226 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:My Patent by d3matt · 2005-03-03 03:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The thing is, I bet Microsoft already has the patent and is sitting on it.

--
I am d3matt
Re:My Patent by northcat · 2005-03-03 03:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

These comments *still* get modded as funny?!?
Re:Why now? by Eternally+optimistic · 2005-03-03 03:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

because you are not one of the editors buddies ?

--
What keeps me going is my inertia.