Patent Document ID: 8955135
Application ID: 13369243
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-readable storage device containing computer-executable instructions to control a computing device to analyze effects of a malware infection by a method comprising: receiving post-infection snapshots from a plurality of machines suspected of being infected with malware, the post-infection snapshots identifying monitored activities of machines suspected of being infected with malware subsequent to the machines being suspected of being infected with malware, wherein the monitored activities of a machine relate to accessing of an operating system resource of an operating system executing on the machine; comparing the monitored activities of the post-infection snapshot of a first machine to the post-infection snapshots of other machines to identify monitored activities that are common across multiple post-infection snapshots of different machines; and tagging as possibly being caused by the malware infection the monitored activities that are common across multiple post-infection snapshots.