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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2007
Peter Szor, Northridge, CA (US);
Peter Szor, Northridge, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for detecting malicious computer code in a host computer (). A method embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of determining () whether data leaving the host computer () is addressed to exit a port () of the host computer () where outbound executable content normally does not appear; when the data is addressed to exit such a port (), determining () whether a string () from a pre-established runtime database () of executable threads is present in said data; and when a string () from said runtime database () is present in said data, declaring () a suspicion of presence of malicious computer code in said data.