F-secure Corporation

F-secure Oyj

Antti Tikkanen

Daavid Hentunen

Jarkko Turkulainen

Samuli Larvala

Mika Ståhlberg

Jose Perez Alegre

Jarno Niemelä

Kimmo Kasslin

Dmitriy Komashinskiy

Jorn Sierwald

Jarkko Konola

Mikko Hyppönen

Timo Harmonen

Mika Eloranta

Jörn Sierwald

A method and apparatus for scanning for or removing malware from a computer device. Under normal circumstances, the computer device is controlled by a first operating system installed in a memory of the device. In order to scan for or remove the malware from the computer device, control of the computer device is passed from the first operating system to a second operating system and, under the control of the second operating system, the device is either scanned for malware or the malware is removed. This allows malware to be detected or removed, even if it has affected the first operating system in some way in order to evade detection or removal.

Malware removal

A method and apparatus for providing information to a security application at a client device. A server receives a request from the client device for information of an object at the client device. The request includes the signature information required by the server to identify the object. The server queries a database to determine the required information of the object and to determine information of at least one further object, and a response is sent to the client device. The response includes the information relating to the object, an identity of the at least one further object, and the information relating to the at least one further object.

Providing information to a security application

The present invention relates to a method for synchronizing files between devices between two devices. The method includes creating a rule to control the synchronization of the file. The rule includes at least one condition for synchronization which is dependent upon a property of a device.

Data synchronisation

A method and apparatus for detecting malware in which a computer device that has an operating system and a memory executes an untrusted computer program. In the event that the untrusted program directly accesses a region of the memory used to store information relating to the operating system, a determination is made that the untrusted program is likely to be malware.

Malware detection

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Espoo, Finland

Antti Tikkanen