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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

May. 06, 2010
Applicants:

Harinath Vishwanath Ramchetty, Karnataka, IN;

Aditya Kapoor, Beaverton, OR (US);

Babu Nath Giri, Karnataka, IN;

Inventors:

Harinath Vishwanath Ramchetty, Karnataka, IN;

Aditya Kapoor, Beaverton, OR (US);

Babu Nath Giri, Karnataka, IN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/564 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying and processing malicious threads In one aspect, a method includes identifying a memory heap block; identifying threads that reside in the memory heap block; determining whether at least one of the identified threads in the memory heap block is a malicious thread; and in response to determining that at least one of the identified threads is a malicious thread, terminating each of the identified threads.


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