US Patent:
20060101277, May 11, 2006
Inventors:
Patrick Meenan - South Riding VA, US
Sreekant Kotay - Reston VA, US
Anthony Chiles - Manassas VA, US
Renee Shomaker - Leesburg VA, US
Guy Levy-Yurista - Rockville VA, US
International Classification:
H04L 9/00
Abstract:
To protect a client system from unauthorized programs, a scanner application for detecting particular unauthorized programs is maintained on a host system and periodically provided to a client system that executes the scanner application. Targeted solutions to particular types of unauthorized programs also are maintained on the host system and provided to the client system. If the scanner application detects an unauthorized program on the client system, a remedy that is targeted only to the detected unauthorized program is programmatically initiated to remedy the problem of the detected unauthorized program.