Patent 7591018 was granted and assigned to Trend Micro on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In one embodiment, a rescue device is employed to disinfect a computer infected with a virus. The rescue device may comprise solid state memory. The rescue device may be removable from the computer and reusable for update and/or upgrade over a computer network. The rescue device may comprise a bootable partition, a virus scanning engine and a virus pattern file.