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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:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2006
Applicant:
Jefferson Delk Horne, Boulder, CO (US);
Inventor:
Jefferson Delk Horne, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Webroot Inc., Broomfield, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for detecting dependent pestware objects on a computer is described. One illustrative embodiment detects a primary pestware process in an executable memory of the computer, the primary pestware process including an associated check value by which the primary pestware process can be identified; locates, at a predetermined offset in the executable memory relative to the check value, a pointer to a string, the string comprising an address of a secondary pestware object stored on the computer; and follows the pointer to the string to ascertain the address of the secondary pestware object.