Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for controlling access to and corruption of information in a computer system. In known “PC Virus” protection methods the boot partition becomes “Read Only” when the system is in Supervised Mode. However, Microsoft Windows, although not strictly self-modifying, does require that certain files located within the Windows directory, can be written to.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 9, 2002
Date of Patent:
January 27, 2004
Assignee:
Arendee Limited
Inventors:
Norman Jackson White, Reginald Killean, David Robb
Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for controlling access to and corruption of information in a computer system. In known “PC Virus” protection methods the boot partition becomes “Read Only” when the system is in Supervised Mode. However, Microsoft Windows, although not strictly self-modifying, does require that certain files located within the Windows directory, can be written to.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 9, 2002
Publication date:
May 1, 2003
Applicant:
Arendee Limited
Inventors:
Norman Jackson White, Reginald Killean, Hannah Bain Wilson, David Robb
Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for controlling access to and corruption of information in a computer system. In known “PC Virus” protection methods the boot partition becomes “Read Only” when the system is in Supervised Mode. However, Microsoft Windows, although not strictly self-modifying, does require that certain files located within the Windows directory, can be written to.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 9, 2000
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2003
Assignee:
Arendee Limited
Inventors:
Norman Jackson White, Reginald Killean, David Robb
Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling access to and corruption of information in a computer system. In known "PC Virus" protection methods the boot partition becomes "Read Only" when the system is in Supervised Mode. However, Microsoft Windows, although not strictly self-modifying, does require that certain files located within the Windows directory, can be written to.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 12, 1997
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2000
Assignee:
Arendee Limited
Inventors:
Norman Jackson White, Reginald Killean, deceased, David Robb
Abstract: An apparatus and method restrict the corruption or destruction of data held on a storage medium forming part of a computer system by hostile programs such as "viruses"by employing a "Supervisor" which controls the reading, writing and formatting of sectors within partitions of a storage medium. The control is dependent upon which type of partition the sector is within, i.e. the boot partition, or an active or inactive general partition, and which type of data the sector contains, i.e. operating system or user information. The Supervisor may be implemented in hardware or firmware, and preferably provides a processor which is inaccessible to the user and to any virus contained in any partition of, for example, a hard disk. The computer system may be reset should an attempt be made to perform a prohibited read, write or format operation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 21, 1992
Date of Patent:
August 12, 1997
Assignee:
Arendee Limited
Inventors:
Reginald Killean, David Robb, Norman Jackson White