F-secure Corporation

F-secure Oyj

Samuli Larvala

Daavid Hentunen

Antti Tikkanen

Jarkko Turkulainen

Jose Perez Alegre

Dmitriy Komashinskiy

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 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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Helsinki, Finland

Samuli Larvala