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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:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
May. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Rolf Repasi, Sunrise Beach, AU;
Simon Clausen, New South Wales, AU;
Inventors:
Rolf Repasi, Sunrise Beach, AU;
Simon Clausen, New South Wales, AU;
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for detecting a malicious entity in a processing system. The method () comprises booting the processing system into a boot module prior to loading an operating system (); and detecting, using the boot module, if the processing system comprises a malicious entity ().