Abstract: A method of unified content scanning in which content is deconstructed into base formats so as to be presented to content filters in a common format. The base formats include text, image and audio. The invention also includes a system of unified content scanning and a gateway appliance embodying the method of unified content scanning.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 6, 2010
Publication date:
November 24, 2011
Applicant:
AGENT SMITH PTY LTD
Inventors:
Trent H C Davis, Stephen James Thorne, James Peter Brotchie
Abstract: A method and system for efficient virus protection in networks of computing resources. Virus definitions are ranked and distributed according to activity. Active viruses are scanned for by substantially every computing resource in the network but scanning for less active virus is distributed across the network according to computing resource capacity.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 24, 2009
Publication date:
September 22, 2011
Applicant:
Agent Smith Pty Ltd
Inventors:
Trent Davis, James Peter Brotchie, Stephen James Thorne