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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2011
Pedram Amini, Austin, TX (US);
Rohit Dhamankar, Austin, TX (US);
David S. Endler, Austin, TX (US);
Avast Software A.S., Prague, CZ;
Abstract
Modifying system configuration data. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including changing operation of a program on a computer system that comprises a native operating system stored on a long term storage device. In some cases, the changing by: reading system configuration data of the native operating system, the reading by a scan program executed under a non-native operating system booted on the computer system; identifying, by the scan program, the program on the long term storage device; and modifying, by the scan program, the system configuration data of the native operating system such that the change in operating of the program is implemented on a subsequent boot of the computer system under the native operating system.