Patent ID: 8001603
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-program product comprising a computer readable medium containing computer program code comprising: a malicious code smart scanning application for defining a dynamic scan level policy for associating malicious code scan levels with file contexts, wherein said plurality of malicious code scan levels includes at least a maximum security malicious code scan level, and a minimum security malicious code scan level wherein each malicious code scan level defines a different level of scrutiny that a file is subject to in scanning the file for malicious code wherein said maximum security malicious code scan level having malicious code scanning parameters that are more rigorous than malicious code scanning parameters of said minimum security malicious code scan; said malicious code smart scanning application further for scanning said target file, at said malicious code scan level, for malicious code.