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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jonathon Salehpour, Culver City, CA (US);

Somard Kruayatidee, Culver City, CA (US);

Radoslav Stanev, Tehachapi, CA (US);

Assignee:

NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/561 (2013.01); G06F 21/562 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing persistent visual warnings for application launchers may include (i) loading an application launcher into a sandbox, (ii) monitoring one or more functions of an application from the application launcher, (iii) querying a malware detection manager using information obtained from monitoring the functions of the application to determine whether the application is potentially harmful, and (iv) modifying, based on determining that the application is potentially harmful, an icon for the application launched from the sandbox to notify a user that the application is potentially harmful. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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