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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2008
Sean D. Corcoran, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael T. Kalmbach, Elgin, MN (US);
Jared W. Patterson, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin Wendzel, Rochester, MN (US);
Sean D. Corcoran, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael T. Kalmbach, Elgin, MN (US);
Jared W. Patterson, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin Wendzel, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer program product or computer system for scanning files in a computer system to detect additional infected files of a computer virus when a first infected file of the computer virus is identified, includes maintaining a friends tree for each file in the computer system, maintaining a search tree using the friends trees for scanning the files, searching the files listed in the search tree for the additional infected files, and quarantining the additional infected files detected in the searching.