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Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2021
Applicant:

Malwarebytes Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventor:

Ravi Kalyan Namballa, Tampa, FL (US);

Assignee:

Malwarebytes Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computing device determines, for a first time period, a usage-based file list identifying one or more executable files. The computing device determines, for each of the one or more executable files identified by the usage-based file list, whether to perform a malware scan upon the executable file based on a cached record for the executable file. The computing device schedules, for execution during a preceding time period before the first time period, a malware scan for at least one of the one or more executable files based on the corresponding determination of whether to perform a malware scan. Each scheduled malware scan is initiated as a low priority thread for execution. The computing device performs each scheduled malware scan during the preceding time period.


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