Method for mitigating false positive generation in antivirus...

Details Method for mitigating false positive generation in antivirus... Method for mitigating false positive generation in antivirus...

2008-06-30

2011-12-27

Lanier, Benjamin (Department: 2432)

Information security

Monitoring or scanning of software or data including attack...

Intrusion detection

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08087086

ABSTRACT:
A method for mitigating false-positives as detected by antivirus software comprising accessing an operating system file that has been identified as malware; creating a signature for the operating system file; comparing the created signature to a signature database; and, if the created signature is not found in the signature database, defining the operating system file as malware. An operating system file, as used herein, is any file included as a part of the operating system binary executable file set, as well as any files added from third party vendors that integrate with or plug into the operating system.

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patent: 7152164 (2006-12-01), Loukas
patent: 2003/0177394 (2003-09-01), Dozortsev
patent: 2005/0071385 (2005-03-01), Rao
patent: 2006/0161761 (2006-07-01), Schwartz et al.

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