Granted Patent B2

US 8,065,514 · App. 12/829,749 · Granted Nov 22, 2011

Assignee: Webroot Software, Inc.

Abstract

Claims (10)

1. A method, comprising:

accessing a user-level portable executable (PE) file; and

modifying a boot-loader registry of a computer during an installation period to include a reference to the user-level PE file, the reference is used by an operating system (OS) during an early boot-time to image the PE file into a memory as a boot-file.

2. The method of claim 1 , accessing the user-level PE file using at least one of a driver PE file, non-driver PE file, or a dummy PE file.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising accessing user-level data associated with a kernel-level during the early boot-time, the user-level data being included in the user-level PE file.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the user-level data are associated with an index that is associated with a kernel-level function.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of a portion of user-level data from the user-level PE file or user-level data associated with the user-level PE file is stored in a location that can be accessed by a pestware monitor.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user-level PE file is at least one of a dynamic link library file, an executable file, or an object file.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising modifying the boot-loader registry during the installation period to include a reference to a driver PE file, the reference to the driver PE file is used by the OS during the early boot-time to image the driver PE file into the memory,

the driver PE file is configured to access user-level data associated with a kernel-level and associated with the user-level PE file.

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