Computer virus control
First Claim
1. A method of virus control for a plurality of clients of an e-mail server, said e-mail server associated with a network, said method comprising:
- centrally monitoring for a pre-defined activity at any of said plurality of clients;
on discovery of said pre-defined activity at a given one of said plurality of clients, blocking e-mail traffic from said given client, said pre-defined activity comprising receiving an e-mail message from said given client having a pre-defined recipient address.
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Abstract
Virus control is provided for a plurality of clients of an e-mail server associated with a network by centrally monitoring for a pre-defined activity at any of the plurality of clients. On discovery of the pre-defined activity at a given one of the plurality of clients, e-mail traffic from the given client is blocked. The pre-defined activity may be monitoring for e-mail from clients which is addressed to any of a plurality of pre-defined addresses. These pre-defined addresses may be salted through the address book of a client such that they are likely to be utilised by a computer virus which tries to send e-mail.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of virus control for a plurality of clients of an e-mail server, said e-mail server associated with a network, said method comprising:
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centrally monitoring for a pre-defined activity at any of said plurality of clients;
on discovery of said pre-defined activity at a given one of said plurality of clients, blocking e-mail traffic from said given client, said pre-defined activity comprising receiving an e-mail message from said given client having a pre-defined recipient address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of virus control at a server side for a plurality of clients, said server side handling e-mail traffic to and from a network, comprising:
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receiving an e-mail message at said server side from a given client of said plurality of clients;
checking a recipient address of said e-mail message for a pre-defined recipient address;
on discovery of said pre-defined recipient address, blocking e-mail traffic from said given client. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for facilitating virus control, comprising:
salting stored data accessible by each of a plurality of clients of an e-mail server, which data normally contains e-mail addresses, with a plurality of fictitious e-mail addresses, each of said addresses having a valid format. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A processor adapted for virus control, comprising:
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means for monitoring for e-mail from any of a plurality of clients addressed to any of a plurality of pre-defined addresses;
means for, on discovery of e-mail from a given client addressed to one of said pre-defined addresses, blocking e-mail traffic from said given client. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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29. A computer readable medium, which when loaded into a processor, adapts said processor to:
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monitor for e-mail from any of a plurality of clients addressed to any of a plurality of pre-defined addresses;
on discovery of e-mail from a given client addressed to one of said pre-defined addresses, block e-mail traffic from said given client.
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