| 摘要 |
The invention generally provides an antivirus network system and method for handling electronic mails (e-mails) infected by computer viruses in a network having a plurality of device nodes receiving and transmitting e-mails through a gateway server. A preferred embodiment of the method according to the invention primarily comprises the steps of determining if any of the e-mails are infected by computer viruses, attaching flags to the infected e-mails, transporting the e-mails, including the infected e-mails, through the gateway server, identifying the infected e-mails through the attached flags, and performing antivirus actions on the identified e-mails, where these process steps are performed transparently to the plurality of device nodes. The method according to the invention can further include the step of processing the infected e-mails according to instructions in the attached flags, where the instructions further include deleting, blocking and quarantining the infected e-mails.
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