MECHANISM TO CHECK THE MALICIOUS ALTERATION OF MALWARE SCANNER

Patent №

US 7,810,091

Granted

2010-10-05

Filed 2002

Owner

NEWTWORKS ASSOCIATES TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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AI components

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10115039

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The installation of a computer program, such as a malware scanner, may be checked to determine whether or not it has not been tampered with using an installation checking computer program to gather characteristics of the installation of the target computer program after the installation checking computer program has first been validated by a separate further computer. The installation characteristics may include operating system registry entries, installed files list, file sizes and file checksums.

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NEWTWORKS ASSOCIATES TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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Assignors

GARTSIDE, PAUL NICHOLAS, HARRIS, MARK

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