Mechanism to check the malicious alteration of malware scanner
US7810091B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 4, 2002 |
| Grant date | Oct 5, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 19, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F21/567
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
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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