Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

ferg to me:

> > [...]was originally filed 26 September 1995 and MIMEsweeper was definitely
> being publicly talked about in terms of using it as an Email gateway 
> virus scanning service earler than that, as this archived Usenet post 
> from 3 July 1995 clearly shows:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.security.misc/browse_thread/thread/7
> 2827a6c05f2853d/d74f6ab12ce7251e?lnk=st&q=#d74f6ab12ce7251e
> >
>
> Not that I wanted to keep this thread alive, but Nick sucked me
> back in... :-)

Hehehehe -- it's all part of an evil scheme...

> Was MIMEsweeper a plug-in for ccMail (as I assume from the
> Usenet post you refer to above)?

Kind of, but...

> The '600 patent, as I understand it, is unique in that it
> qualifies the AV mitigation as being done by a gateway device
> (a la what we now call an "appliance", a la "proxy server") and
> not by a software solution (AV) atop another application (an SMTP
> server, in this instance).
>
> Of course, I could be wrong -- I am not a lawyer.

...I think you're wrong.

As i vaguely recall and from reading between the lines of the above 
(and other, later, such Usenet posts) MIMEsweeper was originally a plug-
in for ccMail and some other mail server (and they were working on 
Exchaneg and other versions, including (eventually) a "standalone" 
one), BUT you had to set up a separate "dummy" server _which was 
effectively a gateway_.

Yes, they did it in software layered on other software, but just 
because Trend called theirs a "gateway device" doesn't mean Trend 
weren't doing it in their own software layered n other software on 
hardware.

> And I'm quite happy to let the lawyers worry about this stuff ...

I'd rather they just go f*&k themselves and leave the rest of us a lot 
happier...

> ... and
> get back to work chasing real criminals.

Hear, hear...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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