Proactive protection against e-mail worms and spam

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7373664
APP PUB NO 20040117648A1
SERIAL NO

10321079

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Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for detecting the presence of malicious computer code in a plurality of e-mails. In a method embodiment of the present invention, the following steps are performed for each e-mail: calculating a feature vector (80), said feature vector (80) being representative of a presence of at least one preselected feature in the e-mail; calculating at least one score (S) based upon said feature vector (80), each said score (S) being representative of a frequency of occurrence of an instance of a feature; determining whether any score (S) exceeds a preselected malicious threshold representative of malicious computer code; and when a score (S) exceeds a preselected malicious threshold, blocking said e-mail.

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  • SYMANTEC CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kissel, Timo S Los Angeles, CA 2 64

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