摘要 |
The invention generally provides a virus epidemic outbreak command system and method using early warning monitors in a network environment with an optimal and expeditious virus scanning functionality embedded therein. The method according to a preferred embodiment of the invention comprises the steps of detecting data traffic flow in all the device nodes in the network system, determining a neighborhood of the plurality of device nodes in the network system having unpredicted traffic flow, designating those of the device nodes in the network system having unpredicted traffic flow as abnormal device nodes and those of the device nodes having predicted traffic flow as normal device nodes, deploying at least one network neighborhood monitor for detecting data traffic flow in the abnormal device nodes, partially isolating a segment in the network system including the abnormal device nodes, scanning those of the data files in the isolated segment, transferring an antivirus cure into the isolated segment for pinpointing at least one infected file among the data files in the network system that is infected by at least one computer virus, preventing all traffic flow into the isolated segment except the transferred antivirus cure, reducing the size of the isolated segment by rejecting all normal device nodes in the isolated segment, and removing the at least one infected file from the isolated segment using the antivirus cure.
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