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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAdrian Marinescu, Marc Seinfeld, Michael Kramer, Yigal Edery
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In accordance with the present invention, a system, method, and computer-readable medium for identifying malware at a network transit point such as a computer that serves as a gateway to an internal or private network is provided. A network transmission is scanned for malware at a network transit point without introducing additional latency to the transmission of data over the network. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for identifying malware at a network transit point is provided. More specifically, when a packet in a transmission is received at the network transit point, the packet is immediately forwarded to the target computer. Simultaneously, the packet and other data in the transmission are scanned for malware by an antivirus engine. If malware is identified in the transmission, the target computer is notified that the transmission contains malware.
In a computing environment that includes a target computer and a network transit point computer, an automated method of identifying malware in a transmission directed to the target computer that is received at the network transit point computer, the method comprising:
A software system for identifying malware at a network transit point computer in a transmission directed to a target computer, the software system comprising:
A computer-readable medium bearing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on a computer that serves as a transit point in a computer network, cause the computer to:
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