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Joseph T Farro

Roberto Anthony Franco

Tariq Sharif

Anthony T Chor

Vishu Gupta

Linda W Averett

Gregory Darrell Fee

Tony Edward Schreiner

Venkatraman V Kudallur

Jingyang Xu

John M Hawkins

Aaron Ross Goldfeder

Viresh Ramdatmisier

Jeremiah S Epling

Andrew G Bybee

Jamie Lee Cool

Sergey A Khorun

Venkatraman V Kundallur

An integrated program lookup browser provides an integrated system with an online program lookup web service that assists the user in finding these unrecognized files, protocols and web page objects by allowing the user to perform a program lookup on a web service that can search one or more databases and return the URL to download the appropriate application or protocol or return the actual program or protocol.

Online service for program lookup

Described is a mechanism for collectively evaluating security risks associated with loading an application. A hosting environment associated with loading the application invokes a trust manager to evaluate the security risks. The trust manager invokes a plurality of trust evaluators, where each trust evaluator is responsible for analyzing and assessing a different security risk. Upon completion of each security risk evaluation, results of those individual security risk evaluations are returned to the trust manager. The trust manager aggregates the variety of security risk evaluation results and makes a security determination based on the aggregated evaluation results. That determination may be to move forward with loading the application, to block the load of the application, or perhaps to prompt the user for a decision about whether to move forward with the load.

Mechanism for evaluating security risks

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Joseph T Farro