Patent ID: 8990946
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of antivirus checking of software objects in a virtual environment, comprising: monitoring, by an antivirus agent running on a virtual machine in the virtual environment executed by a processor, one or more events occurring in the virtual machine; determining, by the antivirus agent, an object related to the one or more monitored events and a type of the object; determining, by the antivirus agent and based on the type of the object, whether the object needs an antivirus checking; sending, by the antivirus agent, to a control module in the virtual environment, information about the object that needs the antivirus checking, the type of the object, and the one or more monitored events; determining, by the control module and based on the information received from the antivirus agent, one or more methods of the antivirus checking to be performed on the object; selecting, by the control module, one or more components of an antivirus system in the virtual environment, in a security virtual machine, in an external component of the virtual environment, or in the antivirus agent in the virtual machine, to perform the one or more antivirus checking methods; determining, by the control module or the security virtual machine, priorities of execution of the one or more methods of antivirus checking; and distributing, by the control module, among the one or more selected components, the one or more antivirus checking methods to be performed on the object based on the priority.