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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Oliver G. Devane, Upton, GB;

Lee Codel Lawson Tarbotton, Aylesbury, GB;

Federico Barbieri, Vizzola P., IT;

Assignee:

McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/51 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0248 (2013.01); G06F 21/563 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); G06F 21/51 (2013.01); H04L 63/145 (2013.01);
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.


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