Anti-Malware Tool for Mobile Apparatus
AssigneeF-Secure Corporation
InventorJarno NIEMELA
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer program for monitoring security of a mobile apparatus are disclosed. The method includes executing a security application in a mobile apparatus; monitoring, by the security application, user interface locking status of the mobile apparatus; determining, as a result of said monitoring, that the user interface has been locked; identifying an application that has caused said locking of the user interface; checking a reputation status of the identified application; upon detecting, as a result of said reputation status check, that the identified application has a bad reputation status, restricting operation of the identified application and unlocking the user interface.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- executing a security application in a mobile apparatus;
- monitoring, by the security application, user interface locking status of the mobile apparatus;
- determining, as a result of said monitoring, that the user interface has been locked;
- identifying an application that has caused said locking of the user interface;
- checking a reputation status of the identified application;
- upon detecting, as a result of said reputation status check, that the identified application has a bad reputation status, restricting operation of the identified application and unlocking the user interface.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- at least one memory including a computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
- execute a security application in the apparatus;
- monitor, in the security application, user interface locking status of the apparatus;
- determine, as a result of said monitoring, that the user interface has been locked;
- identify an application that has caused said locking of the user interface;
- check a reputation status of the identified application;
- upon detecting, as a result of said reputation status check, that the identified application has a bad reputation status, restrict operation of the identified application and unlock the user interface.
A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory distribution medium readable by a computer and comprising program instructions which, when loaded into a computer, execute a computer process comprising:
- executing a security application in a mobile apparatus;
- monitoring, by the security application, user interface locking status of the mobile apparatus;
- determining, as a result of said monitoring, that the user interface has been locked;
- identifying an application that has caused said locking of the user interface;
- checking a reputation status of the identified application;
- upon detecting, as a result of said reputation status check, that the identified application has a bad reputation status, restricting operation of the identified application and unlocking the user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.