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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7076803 | Integrated intrusion detection services Improvements in intrusion detection are disclosed by providing integrated intrusion detection services. Preferably, these services are integrated into a system or server that is the potential target of attack. Stack-based security processing is leveraged for access ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076655 | Multiple trusted computing environments with verifiable environment identities A host computing platform 20 provides one or more computing environments 24 and includes a trusted device 213 arranged to form an integrity metric individual to each computing environment 24. The integrity metric is provided to a user ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069445 | System and method for migration of a version of a bootable program A computer system (e.g., a personal computer (PC)) is loaded with multiple versions of the bootable program (e.g., an operating system (OS)). The boot record for each bootable program version is hashed to produce a digest and the digest is signed using the cryptogra... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069594 | File system level integrity verification and validation An integrity verifier and validator is provided in which an initial anti-virus scan is performed against an entire file system to verify the integrity of the file system and create a corresponding file system level integrity verification database of known scanned re... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069583 | Detection of polymorphic virus code using dataflow analysis A method and apparatus for detecting polymorphic viral code in a computer program is provided. The apparatus comprises an emulator, an operational code analyzer and an heuristic analyzer. The emulator emulates a selected number of instructions of the computer progra... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069474 | System and method for assessing compatibility risk A system and method for assessing binary compatibility between software modules permits software end users to register with a system, download software tools for testing binary compatibility between one or more ABIs and binary files resident on the end users' comput... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069589 | Detection of a class of viral code A method and apparatus for detecting a class of viral code are provided. The apparatus comprises an heuristic analyzer and a search component. The heuristic analyzer heuristically analyzes a subject file and generates a set of flags along with statistical informatio... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065789 | System and method for increasing heuristics suspicion levels in analyzed computer code A method of selecting a detection method for analyzing computer code for malicious code. The method provides a plurality of malicious code detection methods, wherein at least some of the malicious code detection methods require different amounts of time to analyze f... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065790 | Method and system for providing computer malware names from multiple anti-virus scanners A method, system, and computer program product that provides multiple names of a given malware in a quick and automated fashion. A method of providing names of computer malwares comprises the steps of receiving a sample of a computer malware, scanning the computer m... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058978 | Security component for a computing device A security component determines whether a request for a resource poses a security risk to a computing device and verifies the integrity of the requested resource before the request is allowed. For a request having arguments and a resource path with a filename that i... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058975 | Method and system for delayed write scanning for detecting computer malwares A method, system, and computer program product provides on-access anti-virus scanning of data files, which can be performed without introducing significant performance degradation and provides delayed file write operation scanning upon interception of a file write o... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055175 | Method and system for generating and using a virus free file certificate integrated within a file A method and system are disclosed for generating and using a virus-free file certificate integrated in a file. The method, for use in a virus-free certificate authority (102), for generating a virus-free certificate (200) certifying that a file is viru... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051077 | Fuzzy logic voting method and system for classifying e-mail using inputs from multiple spam classifiers A method, and corresponding system, for identifying e-mail messages as being unwanted junk or spam. The method includes converting the outputs of a set of e-mail classification tools into a standardized format, such as a probability having a value between zero and o... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047561 | Firewall for real-time internet applications The present invention relates to a firewall for use in association with real-time Internet applications such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The firewall applies an application proxy to the signaling and control channels and a packet filter to the bearer cha... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043631 | Arrangement and method for modifying the functionality of a security module An arrangement and a method for modifying the functionality of a security module employ a start loading program stored in a FLASH program memory for reprogramming the FLASH program memory by copying a portion of the start loading program into a main memory of the se... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043758 | Scanning computer files for specified content Scanning for computer viruses or E-mail and data content filtering is performed using a distributed programming approach. A master computer 4 serves to divide the scanning operation into a plurality of tasks that are allocated to further computers 8, 10, 1... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043757 | System and method for malicious code detection A system for malicious code detection includes a front-end processor, multiple scanning computer systems, and a detection management system. During operation, the multiple scanning computer systems scan content for malicious code and generate an alarm when the conte... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043759 | Architecture to thwart denial of service attacks A system architecture for thwarting denial of service attacks on a victim data center is described. The system includes a first plurality of monitors that monitor network traffic flow through the network. The first plurality of monitors is disposed at a second plura... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036147 | System, method and computer program product for eliminating disk read time during virus scanning A system, method and computer program product are provided for accelerated scanning. Initially, a file access pattern associated with data is identified. The data is subsequently read based on the file access pattern. A virus scan is then performed on the data. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032114 | System and method for using signatures to detect computer intrusions A system and method are disclosed for detecting intrusions in a host system on a network. The intrusion detection system comprises an analysis engine configured to use continuations and apply forward- and backward-chaining using rules. Also provided are sensors, whi... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024548 | Methods and apparatus for auditing and tracking changes to an existing configuration of a computerized device A change controller application, process and system tracks modification to a configuration of a computerized device by receiving a change request indicating a requested change to an existing configuration of the computerized device and preparing a change notificatio... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023861 | Malware scanning using a network bridge A network bridge (14) has an associated malware scanner (16) that serves to concatenate portions of a data file from within data packets intercepted by the network bridge (14) and then scan the data file concerned before the data file is forward... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020895 | Remote computer virus scanning A method of scanning electronic files for computer viruses comprises identifying at a first node 4 of a computer network 1, electronic files which require to be scanned for computer viruses. The first node 4 initiates a dialogue with a second no... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017187 | Method and system for file blocking in an electronic messaging system The invention provides a method and system for quickly and preemptively controlling the outbreak of destructive software applications sent in an electronic messaging system. Such system and method provide an additional component to an electronic messaging system to ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013483 | Method for emulating an executable code in order to detect maliciousness The present invention is directed to a method for emulating an executable code, whether it is a human-readable code (e.g., macro and script) or a compiled code (e.g. Windows executable). At the design time, one or more content attributes are defined for the variable... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010807 | System and method for network virus protection A system and method for virus protection of computers on a local area network (LAN) is disclosed. The LAN's anti-virus policy is programmed into the firewall, or other Internet access module, which applies that policy to the client computers on the LAN. This policy ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7000250 | Virtual opened share mode system with virus protection A system, method and computer program product are provided for protecting a computer in an opened share mode. Initially, a computer is run on a network in an opened share mode. In operation, attempts to access the computer by applications are monitored. Further, it ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993660 | System and method for performing efficient computer virus scanning of transient messages using checksums in a distributed computing environment A system and method for performing efficient computer virus scanning of transient messages using checksums in a distributed computing environment is described. An incoming message is intercepted at a network domain boundary. The incoming message includes a body stor... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6986051 | Method and system for controlling and filtering files using a virus-free certificate The present invention is directed to computer viruses and more particularly to a method and system for use in a virus-free certificate firewall, of controlling and filtering files using a virus-free certificate. An example embodiment of the method comprises the step... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6983486 | Method and apparatus for establishing security scanner attributes in a computer system One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that establishes a list of security scanner attributes for a computing node within a hierarchy of computing nodes. The list of security scanner attributes is associated with a security scanner action to be pe... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6981280 | Intelligent network scanning system and method A system, method and computer program product are provided for scanning data. Initially, data is received at a network element. Thereafter, a load on the network element is identified. The data is then conditionally scanned at the network element based on the load o... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6981279 | Method and apparatus for replicating and analyzing worm programs A system and a method are disclosed for dynamically analyzing software, some of whose potentially-important behaviors (such as worm-like behavior) may only be displayed when the software is executed in an environment where it has, or appears to have, access to a pro... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6976271 | Method and system for retrieving an anti-virus signature from one or a plurality of virus-free certificate authorities A method and system as disclosed for use in a virus-free certificate proxy (107, 801), of retrieving from one or a plurality of virus-free certificate authorities (104, 804) a virus-free certificate (200) certifying that a file is virus-free. Th... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6701440 | Method and system for protecting a computer using a remote e-mail scanning device A system and method for a remote or network-based application service offering virus scanning, sniffing, or detecting of e-mail viruses prior to the e-mail messages arriving at the destination system or server are disclosed. The method protects a computer... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6697950 | Method and apparatus for detecting a macro computer virus using static analysis One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects a macro virus in a computer system by statically analyzing macro operations within a document. The system operates by receiving the document containing the macro operations. The system... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6654751 | Method and apparatus for a virus information patrol A virus information patrol (VIP) data collector is provided to monitor virus information repositories and to collect selected virus descriptor data into a VIP database in accordance with a VIP configuration data. The VIP configuration data may include var... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6611925 | Single point of entry/origination item scanning within an enterprise or workgroup A method and system for on-access virus scanning within an enterprise or in a workgroup, where all users are authenticated against a trusted certificate authority. The first time an item, such as an executable file or document, is accessed, it is scanned ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 5623600 | Virus detection and removal apparatus for computer networks A system for detecting and eliminating viruses on a computer network includes a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) proxy server, for controlling the transfer of files and a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) proxy server for controlling the transfer of mail m... | 04/22/1997 |
