Computer System Architecture And Method Providing Operating-System Independent Virus-, Hacker-, and Cyber-Terror Immune Processing Environments

Abstract

Information appliance, computing device, or other processor or microprocessor based device or system provides security and anti-viral, anti-hacker, and anti-cyber terror features, and can automatically create multiple sequentially or concurrently and intermittently isolated and/or restricted computing environments to prevent viruses, malicious or other computer hacking, computer or device corruption and failure by using these computing environments in conjunction with restricted and controlled methods of moving and copying data, combined with a process that destroys malicious code located in computing environments and data stores.

1 . An information appliance of the type having first storage for programs and data, and processor logic and executing computer program instructions to perform a task involving a user data; the information appliance characterized in that: separate control processing environments and user processing environments are created and maintained so that: (1) user data having unknown or untrusted content is not exposed in the control processor logic environment to computer program code that can execute any computer program code instructions imbedded in the user data; and (2) user data having unknown or untrusted content is only exposed in the user processor logic environment in a temporary storage different from the first storage when isolated from the first storage. 
   
   
       2 . An information appliance as in  claim 1 , wherein said first storage stores a master template file having operating system and application program components and a protected copy of user data.