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US 2026/0267964 A1Published application
System and method for preventing ransomware and other malware.
OwnerWilliam Charles Easttom IIinventor
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Abstract
The current invention discloses a system and methods for preventing ransomware and other malware using a technique of interrupting the start of a process, performing two or more checks, and making a backup of sensitive data before allowing a process to launch.
Claims15
A system for detecting and mitigating malware by first detecting a computer process when it is first launched;
- interrupting said process to perform at least two checks to see if the process is authorized to operate on this device;
- at least one of those checks being a manual approval if this is the first time that process has launched;
- further making a backup of designated files to an isolated folder to secure said files prior to launching the process;
A method for detecting and mitigating malware by first detecting a computer process when it is first launched;
- interrupting said process to perform at least two checks to see if the process is authorized to operate on this device;
- at least one of those checks being a manual approval if this is the first time that process has launched;
- further making a backup of designated files to an isolated folder to secure said files prior to launching the process;
The method of claim 10 wherein the manual override must be done by an administrator with appropriate credentials.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.