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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2011
Anubhav Savant, Culver City, CA (US);
Anubhav Savant, Culver City, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting rogue security software whereby a timeframe and a threshold pop-up score are defined. A user computing system is monitored/scanned for any pop-up events being presented to the user and once a pop-up event is detected, the source process, or application, associated with the pop-up event is identified. The identified source process is then monitored for at least the defined timeframe and each pop-up event associated with the identified source process in the defined timeframe is counted and used to compute a pop-up score for the identified source process. The pop-up score for the identified source process is then compared with the threshold pop-up score and if the pop-up score associated with the identified source process exceeds the threshold pop-up score, the status of the identified source process is transformed to the status of identified 'suspect' source process.