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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2011
Rowan Trollope, London, GB;
Chandrasekhar Cidambi, Fremont, CA (US);
Lipphei Adam, Austin, TX (US);
Caskey L. Dickson, La Crescenta, CA (US);
Rowan Trollope, London, GB;
Chandrasekhar Cidambi, Fremont, CA (US);
Lipphei Adam, Austin, TX (US);
Caskey L. Dickson, La Crescenta, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for providing protection against unsafe links on a social networking website are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for providing protection against unsafe links on a social networking website comprising: receiving, from the social networking website, user profile data associated with a user of the social networking website, scanning, from the user profile data, a plurality of links, accessing a safety rating for each of the plurality of links, and outputting, to a client device associated with the user, a link analysis report that indicates the safety rating of one or more of the plurality of links.