SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FORMATION OF ANTI-VIRUS RECORDS USED TO DETECT MALICIOUS FILES ON USER'S COMPUTER Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G06F21/56 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: method is proposed, comprising: creating a set of anti-virus records for detection of each malicious file from the file database, collecting usage statistics for each created anti-virus record, calculating power of each created anti-virus record based on collected usage statistics of each anti-virus record, generating a set of anti-virus records in such a way that an anti-virus record is selected from the file database for each malicious file, by means of which an anti-virus application considers this file to be malicious, with the highest power, wherein the selected anti-virus records are added to the said anti-virus records set by means of forming an anti-virus records set for further transmission to the user's computer and usage by an anti-virus application on the user's computer.

EFFECT: reduction of computer resources consumption by anti-virus application, in particular, memory on hard drive used to store anti-virus records.

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