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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2000
Applicants:

Michael P. Lyle, San Jose, CA (US);

Robert F. Ross, Mountain View, CA (US);

James R. Maricondo, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael P. Lyle, San Jose, CA (US);

Robert F. Ross, Mountain View, CA (US);

James R. Maricondo, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for preventing detection of a selected process running on a computer. A request to access a file concerning a process running on the computer is received from a user. It is determined whether the file requested by the user relates to the selected process. If the requested file does not relate to the selected process, the user is provided with access to the file.


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