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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2017
Applicant:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Nikhil Nishikant Joshi, Pune, IN;
Sharad Subhash Mhaske, Ahmednagar, IN;
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/50 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/568 (2013.01); G06F 21/50 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/562 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for preventing malware is described. The method may include identifying a malicious application running on a first computing device, determining that the malicious application is installed on a second computing device based on the identifying, and performing a single operation including uninstalling the malicious application from the first computing device and the second computing device.