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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2009
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Shane Pereira, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Wilson Meng, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yoshihiro Yasuda, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Shane Pereira, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Wilson Meng, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yoshihiro Yasuda, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The instant disclosure describes various exemplary systems and methods for exonerating an untrusted software component based solely on a trusted software component's non-optional or 'hard' dependency on the untrusted software component. In one example, a method for exonerating untrusted software components in this manner may include: 1) identifying a dependent software component, 2) determining that the dependent software component is a non-optional dependent component of at least one trusted software component, and then 3) classifying the dependent software component as a trusted software component. As detailed herein, such a method may enable security software to quickly and efficiently exonerate untrusted components by association without having to scan or perform other intrusive and/or resource-intensive security operations on such untrusted software components.