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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2008
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Shreyans Mehta, Fremont, CA (US);
Vijay Anand Seshadri, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Shreyans Mehta, Fremont, CA (US);
Vijay Anand Seshadri, Milpitas, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for protecting users from accidentally disclosing personal information in an insecure environment. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring I/O device input data associated with a guest operating system on a virtualization platform. The guest operating system has less privilege than a privileged operating system on the virtualization platform. The method further includes determining whether the I/O device input data corresponds to personal information of a user, and delaying or blocking the transfer of the I/O device input data to the guest operating system if the I/O device input data corresponds to the personal information of the user.