Here's an eWeek article about the Trend Micro antivirus patent and a possible open source victim. "In fact, ClamAV is a particularly interesting problem, at least if Trend Micro decides to pursue it. ClamAV has become somewhat popular among the 'roll your own gateway security' crowd, and I think it's fair to say that ClamAV's main application is as an SMTP proxy. I would be surprised to see Trend go after ClamAV itself, and the ITC wouldn't be the place to do it, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that letters have been sent to some of the other commercial redistributors of ClamAV, such as Apple." (Thanks to Barry Gould).

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