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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2011
Christian Seifert, Seattle, WA (US);
Jack Stokes, North Bend, WA (US);
Long LU, Atlanta, GA (US);
David Heckerman, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Christina Colcernian, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Sasi Parthasarathy, Seattle, WA (US);
Navaneethan Santhanam, Chicago, IL (US);
Christian Seifert, Seattle, WA (US);
Jack Stokes, North Bend, WA (US);
Long Lu, Atlanta, GA (US);
David Heckerman, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Christina Colcernian, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Sasi Parthasarathy, Seattle, WA (US);
Navaneethan Santhanam, Chicago, IL (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A machine-implemented method for detecting scareware includes the steps of accessing one or more landing pages to be evaluated, extracting one or more features from the landing pages, and providing a classifier to compare the features extracted from the landing pages with features of known scareware and non-scareware pages. The classifier determines a likelihood that the landing page is scareware. If determined to be scareware, the landing page is removed from search results generated by a search engine. The features can be URLs, text, image interest points, image descriptors, a number of pop-ups generated, IP addresses, hostnames, domain names, text derived from images, images, metadata, identifiers of executables, and combinations thereof.