Citrix Systems, Inc.

Andrew Kisliakov

A system and method for implementing a plugin control mechanism. A disclosed method includes: launching an application; injecting additional functionality into the application; and utilizing the additional functionality to: detect a file processing call; evaluate the file processing call against to a set of rules to determine whether the file processing call involves execution of an extension file; and call an operating system (OS) application control function in response to determining the file processing call involves execution of the extension file, wherein the OS application control function is configured to conditionally prevent execution of the extension file.

Growing community of inventors

Burt St. Edmunds, United Kingdom

Andrew Kisliakov