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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAngela Butcher, Jason Garms, Kalid Azad, Marc Seinfeld, Paul Bryan, Sterling Reasor, Alvin Loh
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A system and method for identifying and removing potentially unwanted software. A mechanism is provided that identifies suspect programs to a user and allows the user to prevent the suspect programs from running without actually deleting them. In one embodiment, scanner data identifying potentially unwanted software is displayed in a GUI that allows the user to inhibit its continued execution. For example, any software not on a list of known, benign applications/processes may be identified as potentially unwanted. Similarly, software that displays one or more suspect behaviors may be so identified, allowing the user to distinguish between normal and suspect software without irreversibly altering the user's system.
A method for identifying unwanted programs on a computer system, comprising:
One or more computer-readable media for enabling a computer-program segment to communicate with one or more other computer-program segments for identifying unwanted programs, said media comprising:
A system for identifying potentially unwanted programs, comprising:
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