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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2013
F-secure Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Christine Bejerasco, Helsinki, FI;
Karmina Aquino, Helsinki, FI;
F-Secure Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Abstract
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising: maintaining a local database of trusted uniform resource locators (URL) where an URL is qualified to said database based on fulfilling predetermined criteria; detecting a request to access a uniform resource locator (URL); obtaining reputation data for the URL from a reputation server or from a local reputation scanner; comparing the obtained reputation data of the requested URL with the reputation data of the requested URL that is stored in the local database of trusted URLs if any; if there is a conflict between the reputation data obtained and the reputation data stored in the local database of trusted URLs, using the reputation data stored in the local database of trusted URLs to determine whether access to the URL is allowed.