Mitigating self propagating e-mail viruses

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H04L 29/06 (2006.01) G06F 1/00 (2006.01) H04L 12/22 (2006.01) H04L 12/58 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2535718

A method, system, and program for mitigating self-propagating e-mail viruses are provided. A request to send an electronic mail message with a file attachment to intended recipients is received. A characteristic of the intended recipients are compared with a maximum recipient limit for the file attachment. If the characteristic of the intended recipients exceeds the maximum recipient limit for the file attachment, then a sender authorization is requested prior to sending the electronic mail message. The sender authorization is required such that if a virus is attempting to self-propagate by sending the electronic mail message, the attempt is mitigated.

La présente invention concerne un procédé, un système et un programme pour limiter les virus de messagerie électronique à auto-propagation. Une demande d'envoi d'un message de courrier électronique contenant un fichier attaché, à des destinataires, est reçue. Une caractéristiques des destinataires est comparée avec une limite de destinataires maximum pour le fichier attaché. Si la caractéristique des destinataires dépasse la limite de destinataires maximum pour le fichier attaché, une autorisation d'émetteur est demandée avant envoi du message de courrier électronique. L'autorisation est demandée de sorte que, si un virus tente de se propager par l'envoi du message de courrier électronique, la tentative est déjouée.

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