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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2014
Bitdefender Ipr Management Ltd., Nicosia, CY;
Sandor Lukacs, Floresti, RO;
Adrian V. Colesa, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd., Nicosia, CY;
Abstract
Described systems and methods allow protecting a client system, such as a computer system or smartphone, from malware. In some embodiments, a network regulator device is used to distribute a bootable image of a hypervisor, on demand, to each of a set of client systems connected to a network. After booting on a client system, the hypervisor loads the local OS and applications into a virtual machine. Integrity measurements of the hypervisor and/or OS are sent to the network regulator for verification. When the network regulator determines that software executing on a client system, such as the hypervisor and/or the OS, are not in a trusted state, the network regulator may block access of the respective client system to the network.