Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-lateral process trees for malware remediation
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Application No.: US16503859Application Date: 2019-07-05
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Publication No.: US11238154B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Jonathan L. Edwards , Saurabh Gautam , Dhananjay Kumar , Joel R. Spurlock
- Applicant: McAfee, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Patent Capital Group
- Main IPC: G06F21/55
- IPC: G06F21/55 ; G06F21/56

Abstract:
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to provide a security agent to: identify a malicious process; construct a genealogical process tree of the malicious process, the genealogical process tree including both vertical direct inheritance and horizontal indirect inheritance relationships; and terminate the malicious process and at least some related processes in the genealogical process tree.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210004458A1 Multi-Lateral Process Trees for Malware Remediation Public/Granted day:2021-01-07
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