Scanning of partial downloads
AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorsAbhishek Tripathi, Mayur Arvind Bhole, Nithya Nadig Shikarpur, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Mayank Bhatnagar
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Abstract
By way of example, a method includes, responsive to a user request to download, from the internet, a downloadable file with executable content, downloading a portion of the downloadable file, wherein the downloadable file is not executable with the portion; after download the portion of the downloadable file, scanning the portion of the downloadable file for malware characteristics to classify the downloadable file; and completing downloading the downloadable file only after determining, based on the scanning of the portion of the downloadable file, that the downloadable file is not malware.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- responsive to a user request to download, from the internet, a downloadable file with executable content, downloading a portion of the downloadable file, wherein the downloadable file is not executable with the portion;
- after downloading the portion of the downloadable file, scanning the portion of the downloadable file for malware characteristics to classify the downloadable file;
- and
- completing downloading the downloadable file only after determining, based on the scanning of the portion of the downloadable file, that the downloadable file is not malware.
One or more tangible, nontransitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon executable instructions to instruct a processor to:
- responsive to a user request to download, from the internet, a downloadable file with executable content, download a portion of the downloadable file, wherein the downloadable file is not executable with the portion;
- after downloading the portion of the downloadable file, scan the portion of the downloadable file for malware characteristics to classify the downloadable file;
- and
- complete downloading the downloadable file only after determining, based on the scanning of the portion of the downloadable file, that the downloadable file is not malware.
An endpoint computing apparatus, comprising:
- a hardware platform comprising a processor circuit and a memory;
- a web browser;
- and
- instruction encoded within the memory to instruct the processor circuit to:
- responsive to a user request to download, within the web browser, from the internet, a downloadable file with executable content, download a portion of the downloadable file, wherein the downloadable file is not executable with the portion;
- after downloading the portion of the downloadable file, scan the portion of the downloadable file for malware characteristics to classify the downloadable file;
- and
- complete downloading the downloadable file only after determining, based on the scanning of the portion of the downloadable file, that the downloadable file is not malware.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.