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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2020
Acronis International Gmbh, Schaffhausen, CH;
Vladimir Strogov, Moscow, RU;
Anatoly Stupak, Moscow, RU;
Andrey Kulaga, Moscow, RU;
Alexey Sergeev, Moscow, RU;
Serguei Beloussov, Costa Del Sol, SG;
Stanislav Protasov, Moscow, RU;
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, CH;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems and method for inspecting archived slices for malware. In one exemplary aspect, the method comprises mounting, to a disk, a first slice of a plurality of slices in a backup archive, wherein the first slice is an image of user data at a first time. The method further comprises detecting a modified block of the mounted, identifying at least one file in the mounted first slice that corresponds to the detected modified block, and scanning the at least one file for viruses and malicious software. In response to detecting that the at least one file is infected, the method comprises generating a cured slice that comprises the user data of the mounted first slice without the at least one file.