Mcafee, Inc.

Geoff Oitment

Russell Bertrand Carter, Iii

Davoud Maha

Javed Hasan

Pravat Kumar Lall

A method and system for protecting against unknown malicious activities by determining a reputation of a link are disclosed. A reputation server queries a database including reputation information associated with a plurality of links to retrieve a reputation of a redirected link. The reputation information may indicate whether the links are associated with a malicious activity. The reputation of the redirected link may be associated with the original link to create a reputation of the original link.

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Kitchener, Canada

Geoff Oitment