Patent ID: 7096500
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer program product stored on a computer-readable medium for controlling a computer to scan data accessible via an internet link for malware, said computer program product comprising: (i) address identifying code operable to identify within currently held data at least one internet address associated with said currently held data; (ii) receiving code operable to pre-emptively retrieve, via said internet link, an addressed data that would be, but has not yet been, accessed by a user following said at least one internet address, after identifying within said currently held data said at least one internet address associated with said currently held data; (iii) scanning code operable to pre-emptively scan said addressed data that was pre-emptively retrieved utilizing said internet link for malware; and (iv) storing code operable to store result data identifying at least addressed data in which malware was not found; wherein said addressed data is cached after said addressed data has been pre-emptively retrieved and pre-emptively scanned, but before said addressed data has been accessed by said user.