Automatic virus scan of uploaded files on BBS?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 19:08, Randy Zagar wrote:
> Looks like this feature of WWIV will be important in a patent lawsuit by
> Trend Micro.  Trend Micro claims to have a valid 1995 patent for doing
> virus scanning on email servers, and many of their claims appear to be
> well-known capabilities that WWIV had  well before 1995
>
> For mor information on this please look at this article:
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713
>
> -RZ

The BBS software that I ran,  while not having that sort of thing as a 
built-in feature,  did include such a capability in terms of handing off 
control to an external scanning program,  and a great many sysops did indeed 
do something of the sort,  mostly before 1995 as well.  I ran one starting in 
1992,  but didn't specialize much in dos stuff,  and so I never bothered with 
it personally.

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