Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Robert C J Pengelly

David R Brinda

Robert Novitskey

Joseph Xavier

Brian Joseph Tsang

Hernan I Savastano

Aime Michelle Mitchell

Stanley Grant

Lubdha Khandelwal

George A Herbert

Joshua T Goodman

Robert L Rounthwaite

Julia Schwarz

Geoffrey John Hulten

Manav Mishra

James Tichenor

Ryan Charles Colvin

Gopalakrishnan Seshadrinathan

David J Calabrese

Brian L Trenbeath

Yasaman Sheri

Bharat Ahluwalia

Henrieta Slugenova

Liza Cardenas

Anti-Phishing protection assists in protecting against phishing attacks. Any links that are contained within a message that has been identified as a phishing message are disabled. A warning message is shown when the phishing message is accessed. The first time a disabled link within the phishing message is selected a dismissible dialog box is displayed containing information about how to enable links in the message. After the user dismisses the dialog, clicking on a disabled link causes the warning message to flash drawing the user's attention to the potential severity of the problem. The links may be enabled by the user by selecting the warning message and choosing the appropriate option. Once the user enables the links, future displays of the message show the links as enabled.

Anti-phishing protection

The display of a scrollable list of items is described. In one disclosed embodiment, a list of items may be displayed on a scrollable computing device display in such a manner that, upon receiving an input requesting movement of a select indicator to a different list item, the select indicator is moved on the display toward the different list item and the list is scrolled on the display in an opposing direction.

Scrollable computing device display

Altering properties of rendered objects and/or mixed reality environments utilizing control points associated with the rendered objects and/or mixed reality environments is described. Techniques described can include detecting a gesture performed by or in association with a control object. Based at least in part on detecting the gesture, techniques described can identify a target control point that is associated with a rendered object and/or a mixed reality environment. As the control object moves within the mixed reality environment, the target control point can track the movement of the control object. Based at least in part on the movement of the control object, a property of the rendered object and/or the mixed reality environment can be altered. A rendering of the rendered object and/or the mixed reality environment can be modified to reflect any alterations to the property.

Altering properties of rendered objects via control points

Embodiments of proofs to filter spam are presented herein. Proofs are utilized to indicate a sender used a set amount of computer resources in sending a message in order to demonstrate the sender is not a 'spammer'. Varying the complexity of the proofs, or the level of resources used to send the message, will indicate to the recipient the relative likelihood the message is spam. Higher resource usage indicates that the message may not be spam, while lower resource usage increases the likelihood a message is spam. Also, if the recipient requires a higher level of proof than received, the receiver may request the sender send additional proof to verify the message is not spam.

Proofs to filter spam

It may be determined whether text of an electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text. If the text of the electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text, the text may be converted to a plain text format for displaying. If the text of the electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text format and the electronic mail message contains a digital signature, converting the text of the electronic mail message to plain text including breaking the digital signature. Also, a message may be provided to a user to indicates that the electronic mail message is in a format other than plain text format, immediate display of the electronic mail message may be prevented, and an option of viewing the text of the electronic mail message in a non-plain text format or a plain text format may be provided.

Method for reading electronic mail in plain text

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Robert C J Pengelly