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Methods and arrangement for active malicious web pages discovery

  • US 7,865,953 B1
  • Filed: 05/31/2007
  • Issued: 01/04/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An arrangement for performing active malicious web page discovery, comprising:

  • a web monitor module, said web monitor module being configured to monitor a plurality of potential suspicious unified resource locators (URLs);

    a crawler module, said crawler module being configured to download content associated with said plurality of potential suspicious URLs;

    a malicious page identifier (MPI), said MPI being configured to verify a set of risk statuses for said plurality of potential suspicious URLs; and

    a unified resource locator (URL) database, said URL database being configured to store at least said plurality of potential suspicious URLs, said URL database being maintained automatically to remove URLs, wherein at least an expired URL is removed from said URL database when said crawler module is unable to download web content associated with said expired URL.

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