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Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2014
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/88 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processing device detects a file system call that is associated with copying data to a destination file. The processing device identifies an application initiating the copying of the data to the destination file and determines one or more files that are opened by the application. The processing device identifies a source file from the one or more files opened by the application. The source file corresponds to the destination file. The processing device determines whether the source file includes data to be protected and allows or denies the copying of the data to the destination file based on whether the source file includes data to be protected.


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