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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2010
Applicant:
Mika Ståhlberg, Espoo, FI;
Inventor:
Mika Ståhlberg, Espoo, FI;
Assignee:
F-Secure Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/568 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method for implementation on a computer system in order to remove or disable a program that generates dialog boxes on a display of the computer system. The method includes accepting input from a user input device that identifies a dialog box displayed on the display of the computer system, identifying the process or process module and program components associated with the identified dialog box, and attempting to terminate or disable the identified process or process module, and remove or disable the identified program components.