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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2004
Steve Thomas, Boulder, CO (US);
Bradley D. Stowers, Mead, CO (US);
Kevin Barton, Broomfield, CO (US);
Jeffery Herman, Boulder, CO (US);
Steve Thomas, Boulder, CO (US);
Bradley D. Stowers, Mead, CO (US);
Kevin Barton, Broomfield, CO (US);
Jeffery Herman, Boulder, CO (US);
Webroot Software, Inc., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing pestware are described. One system includes a pestware shield configured to detect pestware activity on a protected computer; a heuristics engine configured to identify repeat pestware activity; a drive scan module configured to scan files stored on the storage device and to identify pestware in the scanned files; a program memory scan module configured to scan programs running in the program memory of the protected computer and to identify pestware in the scanned programs; a registry scan module configured to identify any attempts to change data in the registry file; and a quarantine module configured to quarantine the pestware identified by either the drive scan module or the program memory module.