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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:
Apr. 09, 2013
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:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for detecting obfuscatory pestware in a computer memory is described. One illustrative embodiment identifies, within an executable object, a reference to a known procedure, the known procedure having a fixed address in the computer memory; and searches for a predetermined check value at a known offset relative to an address, in the computer memory, of the reference to the known procedure.