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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2010
John W. Ogilvie, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
John W. Ogilvie, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Goldpark Foundation L.L.C., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Tools and techniques are provided for detecting a particular type of spyware. Network activities and user update activities are monitored automatically, and the results are analyzed to identify related processes which perform network transmissions without performing substantive user updates. These processes are identified to a user and/or an administrator as potential spyware, and are then quarantined or otherwise handled based on instructions received from the user or administrator. In some cases, the monitoring and analysis begins with selection of a group of processes to monitor, while in other cases it begins with monitoring of network and/or user update activities in order to narrow the group of suspect processes. Devices, configured media, and method products are also described.