US Patent 11762994 System and method of inspecting archive slices for malware

Disclosed herein are systems and method for inspecting archived slices for malware. In one exemplary aspect, the method comprises identifying a first slice in a plurality of slices in a backup archive, wherein the first slice is an image of user data at a first time. The method comprises scanning the first slice of the plurality of slices in the backup archive and detecting at least one infected file in the first slice. The method comprises identifying a block of the first slice that corresponds to the at least one infected file. The method comprises mounting, to a disk, a second slice of the plurality of slices. The method comprises tracking the block and determining that the at least one infected file exists on the second slice and removing the infected file from the second slice by generating a respective cured slice of the second slice.