Impeding progress of malicious guest software
US8763115B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 19, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jun 24, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 3, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2009/45591
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is a method of operating a virtualization system, the method including: (a) instantiating a virtualization system on an underlying hardware machine, the virtualization system exposing a virtual machine in which multiple execution contexts of a guest execute; (b) monitoring the execution contexts from the virtualization system; and (c) selectively impeding computational progress of a particular one of the execution contexts.
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