Abstract: A system and method for invoking the emergency operations includes an initiation feature such as an application in the user's tray, an application on the user's home screen, a hardware button, a specific key sequence (e.g., Fn-V for virus), or other device input that is likely not to be invoked by mistake. Once invoked, one or more security actions are taken to prevent or reduce harm from potential malware. These actions include some or all of using a more secure whitelist, terminating running programs that are not on the whitelist (e.g., a global whitelist), setting of a firewall to restrict communications, capturing certain logfile information and transmitting this information to a security server, setting the firewall to only allow access by certain IP addresses, and blocking and/or terminating certain other programs.

Abstract: A system and method for invoking the emergency operations includes an initiation feature such as an application in the user's tray, an application on the user's home screen, a hardware button, a specific key sequence (e.g., Fn-V for virus), or other device input that is likely not to be invoked by mistake. Once invoked, one or more security actions are taken to prevent or reduce harm from potential malware. These actions include some or all of using a more secure whitelist, terminating certain running programs, setting of a firewall to restrict communications, capturing certain logfile information and transmitting this information to a security server, setting the firewall to only allow access by certain IP addresses, and blocking and/or terminating certain programs.

Abstract: A system for intelligent managing whitelists and blacklist provides options and/or suggestions to the administrators and/or information technology team to allow administration of whitelists and/or blacklists based upon history and rules. For example, if permission to run a certain program is requested by several people in a group or organization and the program is not believed to have a virus, then, the administrator if presented with an option to enable (e.g., add to the whitelist) that program for the entire group or organization.

Abstract: A system for intelligent managing whitelists and blacklist provides options and/or suggestions to the administrators and/or information technology team to allow administration of whitelists and/or blacklists based upon history and rules. For example, if permission to run a certain program is requested by several people in a group or organization and the program is not believed to have a virus, then, the administrator if presented with an option to enable (e.g., add to the whitelist) that program for the entire group or organization.