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Preventing malicious codes from performing malicious actions in a computer system

  • US 8,201,246 B1
  • Filed: 02/25/2008
  • Issued: 06/12/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of preventing malicious codes from performing malicious actions in a computer, the method comprising:

  • intercepting a computer instruction issued by a computer program running in a computer, wherein the computer is not running a virtual machine;

    determining if the computer instruction is a member of a set of computer instructions responded to differently in the computer depending on whether or not the virtual machine is running on the computer; and

    responding to the computer instruction in accordance with convention of the virtual machine when the computer instruction is a member of the set of computer instructions.

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