Webroot Software, Inc.

Webroor Software, Inc.

Webroot Inc.

Steve Thomas

Jeffery D Herman

Matthew L Boney

Bradley D Stowers

Michael P Greene

Kevin Barton

David Moll

Justin R Bertman

Jeffery Herman

Systems and methods for managing pestware are described. One system includes a pestware shield configured to detect pestware activity on a protected computer; a heuristics engine configured to identify repeat pestware activity; a drive scan module configured to scan files stored on the storage device and to identify pestware in the scanned files; a program memory scan module configured to scan programs running in the program memory of the protected computer and to identify pestware in the scanned programs; a registry scan module configured to identify any attempts to change data in the registry file; and a quarantine module configured to quarantine the pestware identified by either the drive scan module or the program memory module.

System and method for pestware detection and removal

Systems for preventing pestware activity are described. One embodiment a heuristic engine configured to identify repeat pestware activity and configured to block the repeat pestware activity; an operating system pestware shield in communication with the heuristic engine, the operating system pestware shield configured to detect pestware activity and report the pestware activity to the heuristic engine; and a browser pestware shield in communication with the heuristic engine, the browser pestware shield configured to detect pestware activity and report the pestware activity to the heuristic engine.

System and method for heuristic analysis to identify pestware

An application that generates a request to access a data file is identified. The application is determined to be not permitted to access the data file based on identified extension associated with that data file so as to quarantine and uninstall that application.

System and method for protecting files on a computer from access by unauthorized applications

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Steve Thomas