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US 7,451,916 B2Granted
Scan-on-read
AssigneeSymantec Corporation
InventorAl Hartmann
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Abstract
A scan-on-read manager efficiently scans received data. The scan-on-read manager detects attempts by applications to read received data. The scan-on-read manager scans received data only responsive to an application attempting to read it. The scan-on-read manager only allows the application to read received data that has been scanned.
Claims10
A computer implemented method for efficiently scanning received data, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting attempts by at least one application to read received data;
- only responsive to an application attempting to read received data, scanning the received data that the application is attempting to read;
- responsive to results of the scanning comprising detecting malicious code in the received data, not allowing the application to read the received data that has been scanned;
- and
- responsive to the results of the scanning comprising not detecting malicious code in the received data, allowing the application to read the received data that has been scanned.
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A computer readable medium containing a computer program product for efficiently scanning received data, the computer program product comprising:
- program code for detecting attempts by at least one application to read received data;
- program code for, only responsive to an application attempting to read received data, scanning the received data that the application is attempting to read;
- program code for, responsive to results of the scanning comprising detecting malicious code in the received data, not allowing the application to read the received data that has been scanned;
- and
- program code for, responsive to the results of the scanning comprising not detecting malicious code in the received data, allowing the application to read the received data that has been scanned.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.