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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
May. 12, 2016
Applicant:
Endgame, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Gabriel D. Landau, Glen Burnie, MD (US);
Nicholas Eli Fritts, Annapolis, MD (US);
Assignee:
Endgame, Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/577 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a malicious code prevention module identifies potentially malicious instructions in volatile memory of a computing device and replaces them with innocuous instructions. In another embodiment, the malicious code prevention module identifies a potentially malicious thread within an operating system and replaces the first instruction in the thread with a new instruction that terminates the thread. Malicious code prevention module prevents malicious code from inflicting any harm on the computing device and its contents.