Inventors:
Carey Nachenberg - Northridge CA, US
Alex Weinstein - Los Angeles CA, US
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
G06F 11/00
Abstract:
Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for matching patterns of symbols within computer systems. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises composing () a pattern matching expression; and embedding () a function using storage means within the expression to form a character matching string. The expression may be a regular expression. The character matching string is compared () against a target string. The target string may be one that is suspected to contain malicious computer code.