Patent ID: 9710647
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining, by a pre-boot virus scanner of a computing system, operating from a secure hardware block of the computing system, during a pre-boot phase of the computing system, that a first file associated with a file system of an operating system (OS) of the computing system is either non-infected with a virus or is infected with a virus and is repairable; and based at least in part on the determining that the first file is either non-infected with a virus or is infected and is repairable, loading the first file by an OS loader of the computing system, to transition the computing system into a boot phase; for a second file associated with the file system, determining that the second file is infected with a virus and is not repairable; and based upon the determining that the second file is infected with a virus and is not repairable, quarantining or deleting the second file; wherein: determining that a file is infected with a virus includes: