| 摘要 |
An information collection system of the present invention automatically analyzes electronic mails, which are described in different formats and transmitted from diverse virus eradicating application programs, extracts required information from the analyzed electronic mails, and automatically registers the required information into a database. A diversity of virus eradicating application programs used for protection against viruses run on respective devices and computers connecting with a network. Each of the virus eradicating application programs works individually and, as occasion demands, transmits information including its working record in the form of an electronic mail to a mail server 8 included in the information collection system. The transmitted electronic mails are kept in a mail box 9 of the mail server 8. The information collection system also includes a host computer 10, which stores multiple structural definitions 18 therein. Each structural definition 18 is used to specify the format of an electronic mail and the place in the electronic mail where information required for preparation of a database 17 is written. An information extraction module 12 of the host computer 10 refers to a selected structural definition 18 and extracts the required information from an electronic mail received by a mail receiving module 11. A database registration module 14 registers results of the extraction into the database 17. An aggregation module 15 reads virus eradication information of, for example, past one month from the database 17 and prepares a report.
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