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Selective disabling of content portions

  • US 9,208,316 B1
  • Filed: 02/27/2012
  • Issued: 12/08/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for protecting a client computing device from harmful network resources, the system comprising:

  • one or more computer processors;

    a computer memory accessible by at least one of the one or more computer processors; and

    a network computing component comprising an executable software module in the computer memory, the executable software module executed by the one or more computer processors, wherein the network computing component is configured to perform operations comprising;

    hosting an instance of a browsing application, the instance of the browsing application in communication with a browsing application of a client computing device;

    obtaining a network resource from one or more content sources, the network resource comprising a plurality of portions of source code;

    determining that a first portion of source code is identified as harmful;

    in response to determining that the first portion of source code is identified as harmful, modifying the network resource, wherein modifying the network resource comprises;

    generating a visual representation of a harmful network resource referenced in the first portion of source code,disabling, in the first portion of source code, a reference to the harmful network resource, andinserting, into the first portion of source code, a reference to the generated visual representation of the harmful network resource; and

    providing, to the browsing application of the client computing device, the modified network resource.

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