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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2001
Applicants:
Jonathan Edwards, Portland, OR (US);
Shawna Turner, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan Edwards, Portland, OR (US);
Shawna Turner, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product provides on-access anti-virus scanning of data files, which can be performed without introducing significant performance degradation and provides delayed file write operation scanning upon interception of a file write operation. A method of detecting a malware comprises the steps of monitoring file access operations of a process, intercepting a file access operation of the process to a file, waiting a time interval, and scanning the file for a malware.