Bizarre Patents
Smoking Cessation Lighter and Method
A lighter for tobacco products suppresses the urge to smoke by operant conditioning.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of PatentStorm
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest patents by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Got questions? Ask a Patent Expert!
Registered users: Manage your profile, comments and alerts.
US Patent 7103913 - Method and apparatus for determination of the non-replicative behavior of a malicious program
US Patent Issued on September 5, 2006
Estimated Patent Expiration Date:
May 8, 2022Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
Estimated Patent Expiration Date:
May 8, 2022Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.AbstractDisclosed is a method, a computer system and a computer readable media product that contains a set of computer executable software instructions for directing the computer system to execute a process for determining a non-replicative behavior of a program that is suspected of containing an undesirable software entity. The process causes execution of the program in at least one known environment and automatically examines the at least one known environment to detect if a change has occurred in the environment as a result of the execution of the program. If a change is detected, the process automatically analyzes the detected change (i.e., the process performs a side effects analysis) to determine if the change resulted from execution of the program or from execution of the undesirable software entity. The process then uses the result of the analysis at least for undoing a detected change that results from execution of the undesirable software entity. The result of the analysis can also be used for informing a user of an anti-virus system of the non-replicative changes made to the environment. | InventorsApplicationNo. 10141896 filed on 05/08/2002US Classes:726/22, MONITORING OR SCANNING OF SOFTWARE OR DATA INCLUDING ATTACK PREVENTION726/23, Intrusion detection726/24, Virus detection726/25, Vulnerability assessment713/188, COMPUTER VIRUS DETECTION BY CRYPTOGRAPHY714/38, Of computer software714/3By masking or reconfigurationField of Search714/3, By masking or reconfiguration714/38, Of computer software726/24, Virus detection726/26, PREVENTION OF UNAUTHORIZED USE OF DATA INCLUDING PREVENTION OF PIRACY, PRIVACY VIOLATIONS, OR UNAUTHORIZED DATA MODIFICATION726/22, MONITORING OR SCANNING OF SOFTWARE OR DATA INCLUDING ATTACK PREVENTION726/23, Intrusion detection726/25, Vulnerability assessment713/188COMPUTER VIRUS DETECTION BY CRYPTOGRAPHYExaminersPrimary: Song, HosukAssistant: To, Baoquoc N. Attorney, Agent or FirmUS Patent References5440723, Automatic immune system for computers and computer networksIssued on: 08/08/1995 Inventor: Arnold, et al.5485575, Automatic analysis of a computer virus structure and means of attachment to its hosts Issued on: 01/16/1996 Inventor: Chess, et al.5613002, Generic disinfection of programs infected with a computer virus Issued on: 03/18/1997 Inventor: Kephart, et al.5745669, System and method for recovering PC configurations Issued on: 04/28/1998 Inventor: Hugard, et al.5826013, Polymorphic virus detection module Issued on: 10/20/1998 Inventor: Nachenberg6067410, Emulation repair system Issued on: 05/23/2000 Inventor: Nachenberg6108799Automated sample creation of polymorphic and non-polymorphic marcro viruses Issued on: 08/22/2000 Inventor: Boulay, et al. International ClassG06F 11/00 |
