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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2009
Adam Lyle Glick, Culver City, CA (US);
Spencer Dale Smith, El Segundo, CA (US);
Nicholas Robert Graf, Culver City, CA (US);
Adam Lyle Glick, Culver City, CA (US);
Spencer Dale Smith, El Segundo, CA (US);
Nicholas Robert Graf, Culver City, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting malware transmission through a web portal is provided. In one embodiment, a method for detecting malicious software transmission through the web portal comprises accessing a security scan history that comprises information regarding a plurality of executables that are scanned upon executable creation and comparing current executable creation activity with the security scan history to identify at least one executable that is not scanned.