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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2012
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gregory Hutchins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christian Czezatke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Satyam B. Vaghani, San Jose, CA (US);
Mallik Mahalingam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shaw Chuang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bich Cau Le, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for detecting malicious code within a first virtual machine comprising creating a snapshot of the first virtual machine and transferring the snapshot to a second machine. A scan operation is run on the snapshot using resources of the second machine. In response to detecting malicious code during the scan operation, action is taken at the first virtual machine to address the detection of the malicious code. Thus, the action in response to detecting the malicious code may include placing the first virtual machine in quarantine.