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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2005
Sterling M Reasor, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew J Newman, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ronald a Franczyk, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jason Garms, Woodinville, WA (US);
Christopher Ryan Jones, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sterling M Reasor, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew J Newman, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ronald A Franczyk, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jason Garms, Woodinville, WA (US);
Christopher Ryan Jones, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a feedback-driven malware detector are directed to protecting a computer from programs that perform actions that are malicious or not expected by a user. In one embodiment, the feedback-driven malware detector performs a method that initially determines whether the state of an application program scheduled to be added to an extensibility point on a computer is already known. If the state of the object is not already known, the user is informed that an application program is being installed on the computer and that the application program is being added to an extensibility point. Then, input is obtained from the user that assists in determining whether the application program is malware.