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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2007
Elie Awad, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Mariette Awad, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Adam E. Trojanowski, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Sebastian T. Ventrone, South Burlington, VT (US);
Elie Awad, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Mariette Awad, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Adam E. Trojanowski, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Sebastian T. Ventrone, South Burlington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for protecting computing systems, and more particularly a system and method which a dedicated hardware component configured to communicate with a protection program. A computer hardware subsystem includes a memory comprising content. The content is at least a list of files which have been modified within a predetermined period of time. The list of files is a subset of files of a hard drive. A dedicated hardware component is configured to track the files which have been modified and provide a location of the files to the memory. A communication link between the dedicated hardware component and a protection program provides the protection program with the subset of files of the hard drive as referenced by the memory content.