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Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2009
Applicants:

Nandi Dharma Kishore, Karnataka, IN;

Anil Bhadrarajapura Ramabhatta, Karnataka, IN;

Harinath Vishwanath Ramchetty, Karnataka, IN;

Inventors:
Assignee:

McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G08B 23/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/629 (2013.01); H04L 63/12 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/568 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2115 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2147 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for responding to an attempt to disable a malware protection program and performing an identification process and one or more protection processes to prevent the execution of potentially malicious code. In one aspect, a method includes monitoring for attempts to disable a malware protection program, identifying a process that generated an attempt to disable the malware protection program, determining whether the process is an approved process, and in response, performing one or more protection processes on the process so as to prevent the execution of potentially malicious code.


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