Patent ID: 8763125

Claim:
A method of disabling malware in a computer system, said method comprising: modifying source code of a system function in said computer system to effect a result that indicates that a debugger program is present in said computer system, wherein said computer system does not include a running debugger program or a dummy debugger program; calling said system function of said computer system by a malware program with the purpose of determining whether or not a debugger program is present in said computer system; calling, by said system function, a dummy function that has no real purpose other than tricking said malware program into determining that a debugger program is present in said computer system, wherein said result produced by said system function is to return a value to said malware program indicating that a debugger program is present within said computer system; said system function producing said result that indicates to said malware program that a debugger program is present in said computer system; and said malware program taking an action that causes said malware program not to perform its function of harming said computer system.