Patent ID: 7065680

Claim:
A method for evaluating the reliability of a program in an electronic device with at least a processing memory for processing programs, said program being stored in a storage memory, in which method the program is loaded into said processing memory to be processed, wherein the method comprises at least the following steps: a first determining step to determine information about the loading address of said program to be checked in the processing memory, a modification step, in which a search for a program corresponding to said program to be checked is made in the storage memory, wherein if the searched program is found, the program code of the searched program is modified to correspond to the loading of the program in the loading address determined in the first determining step, and an examining step, in which the conformity of the program loaded in the processing memory and the modified program is examined, wherein the result of the examining step is used in the evaluation of the reliability of the program to be checked.