Patent ID: 7644352
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product, comprising: scanning logic operable to scan computer data transferred from source computer to a scanning computer and to identify one or more portions of said computer data having one or more predetermined characteristics indicative of said computer data having specified content; log generating logic operable to write details of said identified portions to a log file, wherein said computer program product comprises log transferring logic operable to control said scanning computer to transfer said log file to said source computer from where said computer data is received; wherein said computer program product is operable such that an amount of scanning of said computer data at said source computer is reduced by: 1) scanning a copy of said computer data at said scanning computer, and 2) scanning at said source computer only said computer data indicated in said log file as having said one or more predetermined characteristics indicative of said computer data having said specified content; wherein said computer program product is operable such that said copy of said computer data scanned at said scanning computer is scanned and cleaned in-memory prior to being written to a computer storage medium of said scanning computer; wherein said computer data includes data stored on a single volume of a storage device of said source computer; wherein said computer program product is operable such that said data stored on said single volume of said storage device of said source computer is divided into a plurality of subsets, each subset transferred to a different one of a plurality of scanning computers, whereby each scanning computer performs the following: wherein said source computer receives a plurality of log files for said data stored on said single volume of said storage device of said source computer, one log file received from each of said plurality of scanning computers; wherein said source computer reads each of said plurality of boa files and scans only said identified portions indicated in each of said plurality of log files.