Antimalware Protection of Virtual Machines

The subject disclosure is directed towards protecting virtual machines on guest partitions from malware in a resource-efficient manner. Antimalware software is divided into lightweight agents that run on each malware-protected guest partition, a shared scanning and signature update mechanism, and a...

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Main Authors THOMAS ANIL FRANCIS, KAPOOR VISHAL, JOHNSON JOSEPH JARED, BATCHELDER DENNIS SCOTT, JARRETT MICHAEL SEAN, NEYSTADT EUGENE JOHN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 07.06.2012
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Summary:The subject disclosure is directed towards protecting virtual machines on guest partitions from malware in a resource-efficient manner. Antimalware software is divided into lightweight agents that run on each malware-protected guest partition, a shared scanning and signature update mechanism, and a management component. Each agent provides the scanning mechanism with files to scan for malware, such as by running a script, and receives results from the scanning mechanism including possible remediation actions to perform. The management component provides the scanning mechanism with access to virtual machine services, such as to pause, resume, snapshot and rollback guest partitions as requested by the scanning mechanism.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20100961854