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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2020
Pc Matic, Inc., Sioux City, IA (US);
Matthew Quincy Riley, Owosso, MI (US);
Robert J. Cheng, Myrtle Beach, SC (US);
Robert J. Woodworth, Jr., Charleston, SC (US);
PC MATIC, INC., Sioux City, IA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of protecting a computer includes providing a whitelist of known applications and a set of rules for determining if a program is benign. Upon an attempt to initiate a program, determining if the program is in the whitelist and if the program is in the whitelist, allowing the program to run. If the program is not in the whitelist, determining if the program is benign based upon the set of rules or strategy and presenting the rule/strategy to the user. If the user accepts the rule/strategy, running the program and updating the whitelist for allowing future attempts to run the program and any other program that conforms to the one rule. If the program is not determined to be benign, the program is not allowed to execution unless a specific override is made.