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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2020
Nortonlifelock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Yun Shen, Bristol, GB;
Pierre-Antoine Vervier, Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR;
NORTONLIFELOCK INC., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
Protecting against potentially harmful app (PHA) installation on a mobile device. In some embodiments, a method may include identifying apps already installed on multiple mobile devices, identifying PHAs in the apps already installed on the multiple mobile devices, training a machine learning classifier, based on the apps already installed on multiple mobile devices, to predict a likelihood that each of the PHAs will be installed on any mobile device, identifying one or more apps already installed on a particular mobile device, predicting, using the machine learning classifier, a likelihood that a target PHA of the PHAs will be installed on the particular mobile device based on the one or more apps already installed on the particular mobile device, and in response to the likelihood being higher than a threshold, performing a remedial action to protect the particular mobile device from the target PHA.