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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2019
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Oliver G. Devane, Upton, GB;
Lee Codel Lawson Tarbotton, Aylesbury, GB;
Federico Barbieri, Vizzola P., IT;
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: identify a downloaded file on a file system; inspect a metadata object attached to the downloaded file; parse the metadata object to extract an advertiser identification string from a GET code portion of a uniform resource locator (URL); query a reputation cache for a reputation for the advertiser identification string; receive a deceptive reputation for the advertiser identification string; and take a remedial action against the downloaded file.