1-74. (canceled)
75. At least one machine accessible storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed on a machine, cause the machine to:
identify an opportunity to assist with remediation of a file at a remote particular host device;
determine a remediation tool for remediation of the file;
launch the remediation tool on a computing device remote from the particular host device; and
cause operations of the remediation tool to be applied to resources of the particular host device.
76. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein causing the operations to be applied to resources of the particular host device includes redirecting the operations to act on the resources of the particular host device.
77. The storage medium of claim 76, wherein the resources include at least one of a memory block, file, or register of the particular host device.
78. The storage medium of claim 76, wherein the operations are redirected through an agent on the particular host device.
79. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein the remediation tool is a first remediation tool and launching the first remediation tool includes launching a plurality of remediation tools including the first remediation tool, wherein operations of each of the plurality of remediation tools are applied to resources of the particular host device to remediate the file.
80. The storage medium of claim 79, wherein the plurality of remediation tools are run in series.
81. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the machine to provide the file to the remediation tool.
82. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein the remediation tool is executed in a virtual environment.
83. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the machine to collect feedback data from the particular host device regarding results of the operations of the remediation tool on the particular host device.
84. The storage medium of claim 83, wherein determining whether to use the remediation tool in response to a subsequent opportunity to remediate the file is based at least in part on the feedback data.
85. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein the remediation tool is at least one of an anti-virus tool, an anti-spyware tool, and an antirootkit tool.
86. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein applying the operations of the remediation tool to the resources remediates the file from the particular host device.
87. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein the opportunity is identified based on a query from the particular host device for additional reputation information for the file.
88. The storage medium of claim 87, wherein the query prompts a determination by an antimalware support system remote from the particular host device that the file should be remediated.
89. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein identifying the opportunity includes receiving a request for remediation of the file from the host device.
90. The storage medium of claim 89, wherein the request for remediation is based on a determination at the host device that the file should be remediated.
91. The storage medium of claim 90, wherein the determination of the host device is in response to receiving reputation information for the file from an antimalware support system remote from the particular host device.
92. The storage medium of claim 91, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the machine to:
receive a query from the particular host device; and
return response data including the reputation information in response to the query.
93. The storage medium of claim 75, wherein the remediation tool is to be executed by the computing device.
94. The storage medium of claim 93, wherein the remediation tool comprises a first remediation tool, and the instructions, when executed, further cause the machine to:
identify an opportunity to assist with remediation of the file at a remote second host device;
determine a second remediation tool for remediation of the file on the second host device, wherein the second remediation tool is different from the first remediation tool;
launch the second remediation tool on a computing device remote from the second host device; and
cause operations of the second remediation tool to be applied to resources of the second host device to remediate the file.
95. The storage medium of claim 93, wherein the file comprises a first file, the remediation tool comprises a first remediation tool, and the instructions, when executed, further cause the machine to:
identify an opportunity to assist with remediation of a second file at the particular host device;
determine a second remediation tool for remediation of the second file, wherein the second remediation tool is different from the first remediation tool;
launch the second remediation tool on a computing device remote from the particular host device; and
cause operations of the second remediation tool to be applied to resources of the particular host device to remediate the second file.
96. A method comprising:
identifying an opportunity to assist with remediation of a file at a remote particular host device;
determining a remediation tool for remediation of the file;
launching the remediation tool on a computing device remote from the particular host device; and
causing operations of the remediation tool to be applied to resources of the particular host device.
97. A system comprising:
at least one processor device;
at least one memory element; and
an antimalware support server adapted when executed by the at least one processor device to:
identify an opportunity to assist with remediation of a file at a remote particular host device;
determine a remediation tool for remediation of the file;
launch the remediation tool on a computing device remote from the particular host device; and
cause operations of the remediation tool to be applied to resources of the particular host device.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A recording medium in which data is recorded, the recording medium comprising:
first reproduction-restriction information associated with the recording medium; and
update information of second reproduction-restriction information associated with other recording medium.
2. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the update information includes release information of reproduction-restriction of the other recording medium.
3. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the second reproduction-restriction information includes region information indicating a reproduction-allowed region of the other recording medium, and the update information includes updated region information of the other recording medium.
4. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the second reproduction-restriction information includes time information indicating a reproduction-restriction release time of the other recording medium, and the update information includes updated time information of the other recording medium.
5. The recording medium according to claim 4, wherein the time information is defined for each region.
6. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the update information includes server information indicating a server which provides updated region information or updated time information of the other recording medium.
7. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the update information is defined for each title recorded in the other recording medium.
8. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the update information is recorded in a secure area of the recording medium.
9. A method for reproducing data recorded in a recording medium andor a storage comprising:
reading updated reproduction-restriction information associated with other recording medium from the data; and
storing the updated reproduction-restriction information.
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein:
the updated reproduction-restriction information is stored when the updated reproduction-restriction information is different from pre-stored reproduction-restriction information.
11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the updated reproduction-restriction information includes region information indicating a reproduction-allowed region of the other recording medium.
12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the updated reproduction-restriction information includes time information indicating a reproduction-restriction release time of the other recording medium.
13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the updated reproduction-restriction information includes server information indicating a server which provides either the data or reproduction-restriction release information of the other recording medium.
14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:
receiving the release information from the server using the server information.
15. A method for reproducing data recorded in a recording medium andor a storage comprising:
determining whether reproduction-restriction of the data is released by referring to update information of reproduction-restriction information associated with the data; and
determining whether to reproduce the data according to the determined result.
16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the update information is recorded in a recording medium which comes out to a market after the recording medium of claim 15.
17. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:
if region information included in the update information is equal to setup region information of a reproduction apparatus, allowing a reproduction of the data
18. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:
if time information included in the update information indicates that the reproduction-restriction period of the data is expired, allowing a reproduction of the data.
19. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:
receiving updated region information or updated time information associated with the data from a server denoted by server information, by referring to the server information included in the update information.
20. An apparatus for reproducing data recorded in a recording medium andor a storage comprising:
a reading unit reading updated reproduction-restriction information associated with other recording medium from the data;
a storage unit storing the updated reproduction-restriction information; and
a control unit controlling the reading unit and the storage unit.
21. An apparatus for reproducing data recorded in a recording medium andor a storage comprising:
a storage unit storing updated reproduction-restriction information; and
a control unit determining whether reproduction-restriction of the data is released using the updated reproduction-restriction information, and determining whether to reproduce the data according to the determined result.
22. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the updated reproduction-restriction information is recorded in a recording medium which comes out to a market after the recording medium of claim 21.
23. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the control unit controls the data to be reproduced when region information included in the updated information is equal to setup region information of the reading unit.
24. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the control unit controls the data to be reproduced when time information included in the updated information indicates that the reproduction-restriction period of the data is expired.
25. The apparatus according to claim 21, further comprising:
a transceiver connected to a server,
Wherein the control unit receives updated region information or updated time information associated with the data from the server denoted by server information included in the updated information.
26. A method for recording data in a recording medium comprising:
generating first reproduction-restriction information associated with the recording medium and update information of second reproduction-restriction information associated with other recording medium; and
recording the first reproduction-restriction information and the update information in the recording medium.
27. An apparatus for recording data in a recording medium comprising:
a recording unit recording the data in the recording medium; and
a control unit generating not first reproduction-restriction information associated with the recording medium and update information of second reproduction-restriction information associated with other recording medium, and controlling the recording unit to record the first reproduction-restriction information and the update information in the recording medium.