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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2001
Neil Andrew Cowie, Aylesbury, GB;
Igor Garrievich Muttik, Berkhamsted, GB;
Daniel Joseph Wolff, Aylesbury, GB;
Neil Andrew Cowie, Aylesbury, GB;
Igor Garrievich Muttik, Berkhamsted, GB;
Daniel Joseph Wolff, Aylesbury, GB;
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
When a user commands execution of a computer program to commence, a loader programis first started. This loader programreads an encrypted version of the computer programand decrypts it using a public key. This generates an executable version of the computer programwhich is written directly to the computer memory. When the loader programhas decrypted the whole of the computer programit starts execution of the computer programit has written into the computer memoryand terminates itself or is terminated by the computer program it started. The computer programwritten into the computer memorywill be written into its own memory space and will have its own execution thread. The encryption used may be public key/private key encryption.