Adobe, Inc.

Mitch Green

Oliver Isaac Goldman

Kevin Lynch

Luis Polanco

James Lewin McGregor

Methods, systems, and computer program products identify trust and reputation information for an application. Status information including installation information and/or rating information corresponding to a software application is stored in a service or in a local computer cache. A software application is identified as corresponding to the status information, and the installation information and/or rating information is presented to a user prior to installation, launch, and/or update of the software application. Using the status information the user can make an informed decision on whether the user will trust the software application to permit the installation, launch, and/or update to occur.

Identifying reputation and trust information for software

In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a system that includes a network-based information server system; and a computer operable to interact with a user interface device and operable to perform operations including: receiving from the network-based information server system status information corresponding to software applications, the status information including black-list information and phoenix-list information; updating a local cache, retained by the computer, with the status information received from the network-based information server system; generating an identifier for a software application, using a digital certificate and a hash value, when the software application is launched on the computer; checking the identifier for the software application against the status information; and notifying a user of the computer when a match is found during the checking.

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Mitch Green