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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2022
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Niall Fitzgerald, Cork, IE;
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for suppression of false positive malware detection. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable instructions to execute a machine-learning model based on a feature associated with an executable file to generate a malware detection output. The processor circuitry is further to, identify, after a first determination that the malware detection output identifies the executable file as malware, the malware detection output as a false positive malware detection output based on the feature invoking a false positive suppression rule. Additionally, the processor circuitry is to cause execution of the executable file based on the identification of the malware detection.