Patent ID: 8949588
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of diagnosing a computer using a mobile telephone, said method comprising: connecting said mobile telephone to said computer, said computer unable to bootstrap itself from its internal drive; bootstrapping said computer from persistent storage of said mobile telephone, said bootstrapping including transferring an operating system image from said persistent storage to memory of said computer, said operating system image including executable antivirus software; executing said transferred antivirus software on said computer in order to produce results indicative of the presence of malware on said computer; transferring said results from said computer to an interface application of said mobile telephone; after said transferring of said results, receiving in said computer from said interface application of said computer instructions for removing said malware from said computer, said instructions originating from an antivirus service located remotely from said mobile telephone and not from said mobile telephone; and executing said transferred antivirus software on said computer and implementing said received instructions in order to remove said malware from said computer.