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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2014
Applicant:
F-secure Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Inventor:
Pirkka Palomaki, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
F-Secure Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/577 (2013.01); G06F 21/565 (2013.01); G06F 21/567 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for implementing a security agent on behalf of a device, the method comprising: obtaining a list of applications installed on the device from a remote repository; for each respective application on the list, comparing reputation attributes obtained from a reputation database against attributes of the application installed on the device; and for any of the respective applications for which it is determined from the comparing that the application installed on the device is malicious, taking action to limit malicious activity by the respective application installed on the device.