SNAPSHOT AND RESTORE TECHNIQUE FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY

A computer system operation registers as an event when an operation potentially characteristic of malware occurs. Events are scored and when a threshold is reached indicative of a possible malware infection a restore point is created. Many restore points are created. When a user decides to restore the system because of the presence of malware a malware report is retrieved. The malware report describes characteristics of a particular piece of malware. The malware report is compared to the restore point logs that had been created earlier. Any number of malware reports are compared to the restore point logs. A restore point log that shares many of the same system changes or other effects also present in a malware report is likely to be an indication of the beginning of a malware infection. The matched restore point log is recommended to the user as the best restore point.