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F-Secure Assigned Patent

Security method and apparatus directed at removable storage devices

F-Secure Oyj, Helsinki, Finland, has been assigned a patent (9,588,829) developed by Turbin, Pavel, Jokela, Finland, for a “security method and apparatus directed at removable storage devices.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of protecting a computer against malware infection. The method includes during operation of the computer, reading master boot record code from a removable storage device into the computer and inspecting said code to identify any instructions associated with suspicious behaviour. In the event that suspicious instructions are identified, the master boot record code on the removable storage device is modified and/or the behaviour of the computer adapted in order to prevent said master boot record code installing malware into the computer. Examples of suspicious behaviour include hard disk read or write operations.

The patent application was filed on March 4, 2010 (12/660,826).

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