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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2019
Applicant:
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan L. Edwards, Portland, OR (US);
Saurabh Gautam, Cork, IE;
Dhananjay Kumar, Cork, IE;
Joel R. Spurlock, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/568 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to provide a security agent to: identify a malicious process; construct a genealogical process tree of the malicious process, the genealogical process tree including both vertical direct inheritance and horizontal indirect inheritance relationships; and terminate the malicious process and at least some related processes in the genealogical process tree.