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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:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2001
Applicants:
Lee Codel Lawson Tarbotton, Aylesbury, GB;
Daniel J. Wolff, Aylesbury, GB;
Neil A. Cowie, Aylesbury, GB;
Inventors:
Lee Codel Lawson Tarbotton, Aylesbury, GB;
Daniel J. Wolff, Aylesbury, GB;
Neil A. Cowie, Aylesbury, GB;
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G08B 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for preventing writes to critical files. Initially, factors associated with a computer are identified. Then, requests to write to files on the computer are monitored. The writes to the files on the computer are conditionally prevented based on the factors to prevent virus proliferation. In use, the factors are altered based on the monitoring of the requests.