Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Varagur Karthikeyan Sriram Iyer

Matthew Bryan Jeffries

Willson Kulandai Raj David

Vinayak Goyal

Thomas P Gallagher

A threat protection system provides for detecting links in a document and analyzing whether one of the detected links is a malicious link that may direct a user of the document to a malicious universal resource locator (URL). In one implementation of the described technology, when a user selects a link in a document, a link activation module calls a threat protection client module that performs a reputation check for the link. If the selected link is malicious, the threat protection client module sends a URL of a warning page to the link activation module.

Threat protection in documents

Implementations described herein disclose a system for providing personalized threat protection for users of computer applications. An implementation of a method disclosed herein includes analyzing usage pattern of an application by a client to determine various application functionalities used by the client, identifying security threats related to the various application functionalities used by the client, and changing the configuration settings of the application for the client based on the plurality of security threats.

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Sammamish, WA, United States of America

Varagur Karthikeyan Sriram Iyer