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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:
Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/6227 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting computing devices from imposter accessibility services may include (1) registering a security application with the computing device as an accessibility service that has special permissions on the computing device that are not available to other applications, (2) ensuring that the security application is the first registered accessibility service on the computing device, and (3) performing, by the security application, a security action after ensuring that the security application is the first registered accessibility service. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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