Aladdin gets software patent for analysis of software behavior
Israeli security firm Aladdin Knowledge Systems has been granted US patent number 7,047,369. In this patent, the Company's researchers describe how they use checks on hard drive access to keep contaminants under control.
Applied for back on September 25, 1997, Aladdin was granted this patent on May 16. The patent claims concern the "monitoring [of] accesses of said application to sectors of said data storage" for applications based on a set of rules. When an application is launched for the first time, the system can learn rules on the basis of which access to sectors can be allowed or disallowed for the application. These rules can be learned automatically or with user interaction. After the learning phase, the system apparently automatically applies these rules for data access.
The claims even apply to applications on other computers. Aladdin probably derives its patent for the sandbox technology from these claims. In the meantime, all common virus scanners use behavior analysis to detect and block malware. They do not, however, include access to hard drives or, more importantly, access to Windows standard APIs.
Reproduced from an article published by Heise Online
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