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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2003
Igor Garrievich Muttik, Berkhamsted, GB;
Ivan Alexandrovich Teblyashkin, Aylesbury, GB;
Igor Garrievich Muttik, Berkhamsted, GB;
Ivan Alexandrovich Teblyashkin, Aylesbury, GB;
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A malware scanner, for malware such as computer viruses, worms, Trojans and the like, utilizes the external call characteristics associated with known items of malware to identify the presence of malware within a computer file. Malware written in a high level language when compiled can take a variety of different forms as object code, but these different object code forms will usually share external call characteristics to a sufficient degree to allow the presence of such external call characteristics to properly and accurately generically identify different compiled variants of the source code malware.