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Re: TrendMicro goes ...
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:06:34 +0000 (UTC)
: > I didn't find anything right off, but I certainly : > remember BBS' in the early 1990's (well before '95) doing virus scanning : > of uploaded files. One might argue that such activity would be prior-art : > to using FTP to upload files and scanning. : : Interesting point. Manual operation, but it makes the automating : "obvious." In fact, I rather suspect that there were BBS utilities that : *did* automate the scanning of all uploads: I didn't run a BBS, but I : recall similar functions mentioned by the BBS moderators to whose boards : I was uploading info. I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I did mean that the BBS was doing automated scans of all uploaded files, after the transfer was completed, before showing it in the file x-fer section as a file available for download. So two things here; first, this was BBS not the FTP protocol and second, this wasn't an "appliance" handling the scanning, like the TM patent says. Again, having a second machine do it instead of the actual server is hardly novel or new. In fact, one could argue that on the larger BBS of the early 90's, they *did* have multiple machines working together, and one would handle the file uploads, scan the files, etc, before passing it to another to be hosted for download. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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