Method and apparatus for automatically protecting a computer against a harmful program

摘要

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for automatically protecting computers against harmful programs. The method comprises: restricting an object program from accessing some resources in a computer system based on predetermined resource access rules; scanning computer resources accessed by the object program to determine whether the accessed computer resources are infected by the object program; and analyzing malicious behaviors based on behavior characteristics of the object program to determine whether the object program is a harmful program.