Patent ID: 9654497
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for more efficiently scanning files for viruses, the method comprising: determining a release date associated with a virus; determining a vulnerability date that is a specified amount of time before or after the release date; enabling a user to adjust the amount of time by modifying a user-tunable relationship value that designates a relationship between the vulnerability date and the release date; dividing, by at least one processor, files stored on a storage system into a first set of files and a second set of files, wherein the first set comprises files that have been updated since the vulnerability date, and the second set comprises files that have not been updated since the vulnerability date; immediately scanning, by the at least one processor, the first set of files for the virus; delaying, by the at least one processor, scanning of the second set of files for the virus until an off-peak period of I/O to the storage system; and scanning, by the at least one processor, the second set of files for the virus during the off-peak period.