Bank of America Corporation

Mcafee, Inc.

Alice Yali Chang

Adam B Richman

Kenneth A Kaye

Brady Prentice Merkel

Nikhil Harish Sanil

William Thomas Stranathan

Anusha Ravulapati

Nikolay Vladimirovich Likhachev

A system for suspending a computing device suspected of being infected by a malicious code is configured to receive a signal to initiate a suspension procedure of the computing device. The system captures states of instructions that are being executed by a processor of the computing device, where the instructions comprise the malicious code. The system prioritizes the operation of a kill switch button over the instructions being executed by the processor. The system sends notification signals to servers managing a user account associated with a user currently logged in at the computing device, indicating that the computing device is suspected of having been infected by the malicious code. In response to sending the notification signals to the servers, the user account is suspended. The system terminates network connections of the computing device such that the computing device is disconnected from other devices.

System and method for suspending a computing device suspected of being infected by a malicious code using a kill switch button

A method for detecting malware includes dividing data to be scanned for malware into at least a first data segment and a second data segment, dividing a signature corresponding to an indication of malware into at least a first signature segment and a second signature segment, performing a relationship function on the first signature segment and the second signature segment yielding a first result, performing the relationship function on the first data segment and the second data segment yielding a second result, comparing the first result and the second result, and, based on the comparison, determining that the data includes information corresponding to the signature. The relationship function characterizes the relationship between at least two information sets.

Method and system for rapid signature search over encrypted content

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Alice Yali Chang