Nortonlifelock Inc.

Gen Digital Inc.

Bullguard Ltd

Andrei Stanciu

Robert A Clyde

Teodor Anton

Daniel Nicola

Alin Enachescu

Detecting malware by linking Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) and Scheduled Task Service (STS) activities to a source program. Using send Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) messages and receive ALPC messages, source programs that initiate the creation of temporary files and perform defined operations may be identified. If the source programs responsible for the temporary files and defined operations are determined to be malware programs, a security action may be performed on the source programs.

Detecting malware by linking background intelligent transfer service (BITS) and scheduled task service (STS) activities to a source program

A method for facilitating utilization of processing resources of a plurality of user electronic devices for mining of cryptocurrency. A user application on each user device includes code for a cryptocurrency mining module and code for functionality different from cryptocurrency mining. Various mining activity data indicative of an extent to which each of the plurality of user electronic devices is utilized by a cryptocurrency mining pool to perform cryptocurrency mining operations is received. The method further includes receiving, from at least one of the cryptocurrency mining pool and a cryptocurrency server separate from the cryptocurrency mining pool, an aggregate amount of cryptocurrency. The aggregate amount cryptocurrency may be exchanged, by communicating with a cryptocurrency exchange server, for an aggregate amount of currency other than cryptocurrency. The method further includes allocating the aggregate amount of currency among user accounts respectively associated with the user electronic devices.

Facilitating third party utilization of personal computing resources in exchange for software usage

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Bucharest, Romania

Andrei Stanciu