Patent ID: 7690038
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically securing a computer network against computer viruses, the method to be performed by a computer and comprising: receiving a plurality of e-mails in the computer network, the computer network including a first server computer and a plurality of client computers; logging receiving of the plurality of e-mails in a log; receiving in the first server computer an updated pattern file for an antivirus scan engine, the updated pattern file being received by the first server computer from a remote second server computer, the updated pattern file being an update for an old pattern file present in the plurality of client computers; updating copies of the old pattern file in the plurality of client computers; finding a new computer virus identified in the updated pattern file but not in the old pattern file; and in response to receiving the updated pattern file in the first server computer, checking the log to determine vulnerability of the computer network to the new computer virus by identifying from the log an e-mail that has been forwarded to its destination client computer and carrying the new computer virus.