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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Mcafee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Gregory W. Dalcher, Tigard, OR (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for controlling loading of an operating system, including mounting an image of an operating system in a pre-boot environment of a programmable device, identifying an untrusted component of the operating system registered to be automatically loaded or loaded during a boot-up stage of the operating system that is predetermined to be early, and substituting a trusted component for the untrusted component.