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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2006
Mark Bregman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William E. Sobel, Stevenson Ranch, CA (US);
Mark Bregman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William E. Sobel, Stevenson Ranch, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
When a client receives a potential threat source (PTS), a user of the client may desire to make an informed decision regarding the PTS. The PTS can be, for example, an email or instant message with an embedded executable, a link to a network destination (e.g., included in search engine results or an email, or webpage), or an executable file (e.g., downloaded from a website). The PTS is identified and characterized to establish a threat rating. The threat rating can then be presented to the user, so as to inform the user as to the PTS riskiness. The threat rating is determined in light of the local security tools available. If there are no local security tools that mitigate the threat of the PTS, then a security tool that is known to mitigate the threat can be identified and recommended to the user.