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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2008
Fabrice Ferino, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Blaisdell, Novato, CA (US);
Fabrice Ferino, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Blaisdell, Novato, CA (US);
Mocana Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for preventing an application which has been maliciously or inadvertently tampered with from causing harm to a computer system are described. Application code of the tampered application is inputted into a code analyzer. The code is analyzed and functions within the application code are identified and examined. A profile is created and may be a description of how a function is intended to operate, that is, the function's expected behavior. Calls between functions are examined and a called function is replaced with a replacement function, such that a call to an original function results in a call to the replacement function. The original function is unaware that it is not getting function calls or that such calls are being directed to a replacement function or stub. A replacement function contains code to ensure that the user space maintains its original appearance.