SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING LOAD ON MALWARE DETECTION SERVICE Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC G06F21/56 

FIELD: computer equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to detection of malicious applications on computing devices using a remote server. Disclosed is a method of categorizing an application on a computing device using a reputation service, according to which: a. using a security means operating on a computing device, requesting a reputation service in order to obtain application classification results; wherein classification result is probability of application belonging to application categories; wherein reputation service operates on security server and stores classification results of previously classified applications, conducted by the classification service based on the previously classified applications collected by the security means of the sets of features; b. using the security means, recognizing the obtained classification results of the application, if the classification results satisfy the relevancy rules; c. category of application is determined by means of protection based on current classification results.

EFFECT: enabling application categorization on a computing device using a reputation service.

14 cl, 4 dwg