Mcafee, Inc.

Ramachetty, Harinath Vishwanath

Kishore, Nandi Dharma

Ramabhatta, Anil

Nandi Dharma Kishore

Harinath Vishwanath Ramachetty

Anil Bhadrarajapura Ramabhatta

Lokesh Kumar

Girish R Kulkarni

Pradeep Govindaraju

Anil Ramabhatta

A method for preventing malware attacks includes the steps of detecting an attempt on an electronic device to access a task scheduler, determining an entity associated with the attempt to access the task scheduler, determining a malware status of the entity, and, based on the malware status of the entity, allowing or denying the attempted access to the task scheduler. The task scheduler is configured to launch one or more applications at a specified time or interval.

Preventing execution of task scheduled malware

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for preventing a modification to a domain name system setting. In use, an attempt to modify a domain name system setting is detected. Additionally, a source of the attempt and an attribute of the modification are verified. Further, the modification to the domain name system setting is prevented, based on the verification.

System, method, and computer program product for preventing a modification to a domain name system setting

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for responding to an attempt to disable a malware protection program and performing an identification process and one or more protection processes to prevent the execution of potentially malicious code. In one aspect, a method includes monitoring for attempts to disable a malware protection program, identifying a process that generated an attempt to disable the malware protection program, determining whether the process is an approved process, and in response, performing one or more protection processes on the process so as to prevent the execution of potentially malicious code.

Preventing and responding to disabling of malware protection software

A method for preventing malware attacks includes detecting an attempt on an electronic device to modify a print service registry, determining an entity associated with the attempt to modify the print service registry, determining a malware status of the entity, and, based on the malware status of the entity, allowing or denying the modification to the print service registry. The print service registry is configured to store configuration information about mechanisms to be used when printing from the electronic device.

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Bengaluru, India

Nandi Dharma Kishore