Patent ID: 9384349
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for securing an electronic device, comprising: trapping, at a level below all of the operating systems of an electronic device, a first attempt to access sensitive system resources of the electronic device; identifying the first attempt as malicious; trapping, at a level below all of the operating systems of an electronic device, a second attempt to access sensitive system resources of the electronic device, the second attempt trapped after the first attempt, the first attempt and second attempt originating from code of the same operating entity; identifying the second attempt as malicious; comparing the sequence of the first attempt and second attempt against a first anti-malware rule, the first anti-malware rule including a requirement of a sequence of attempts including the first attempt followed by the second attempt; and based on the comparison of the sequence of the first attempt and second attempt against the first anti-malware rule, allowing the second attempt.