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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. 03, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2006
Applicants:
Robert Edward Moore, Aylesbury, GB;
Fraser Peter Howard, Chipping Norton, GB;
Lee Codel Tarbotton, Leicester, GB;
Inventors:
Robert Edward Moore, Aylesbury, GB;
Fraser Peter Howard, Chipping Norton, GB;
Lee Codel Tarbotton, Leicester, GB;
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer file may be scanned for suspicious wordsoccurring within suspicious contextsThus, messages embedded by malware authors within their malware may be detected. The detection of such embedded messages may be used to identify otherwise unknown items of malware or as a pre-filtering technique for controlling the use of further scanning techniques.