System, method, and computer program product for presenting an indicia of risk associated with search results within a graphical user interface

• US 8,296,664 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2007
• Issued: 10/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: McAfee, LLC
• Original Assignee: McAfee, Inc. (McAfee, LLC)
• Inventors: Dixon, Christopher John, Pinckney, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo, Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): ITURRALDE, ENRIQUE W
• Application Number:
  US11/837,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20080114709A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,901 Days
• Field of Search: 715/760, 715/711, 715741-742, 715/745, 715/747, 715/779, 715/808, 715/809, 715/811, 715/812
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2139 Recurrent verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1483 service impersonation, e.g. phishing, pharming or web spoofing detection of rogue wireless access points H04W12/12

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product comprise presenting a plurality of search results within a graphical user interface. Further, an indicia of risk associated with the search results is presented, in real-time, within the graphical user interface.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

presenting a plurality of search results within a graphical user interface;

presenting an indicia of risk associated with the plurality of search results within the graphical user interface, wherein the indicia of risk is presented as a risk based icon for each link of the plurality of search results, and wherein a warning window is displayed based on an analysis, which detects that an object on a particular website is attempting to obtain information about a user, and wherein the warning window includes a recommendation to the user based on a reputational characteristic of the particular website; and

providing one or more links to alternative websites that offer content similar to that of the particular website, and wherein the alternative websites offer a higher reputational characteristic for managing personal information, wherein the alternative websites are determined using categorization data in a process that includes;

identifying a popular category of web content; and

selecting the alternative websites based on their respective popularity and security characteristics.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analysis includes an analysis involving a heuristic.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the analysis includes an automatic analysis.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the analysis includes a dynamic analysis of an executable.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of search results are filtered according to the indicia of risk associated with the at least one of the plurality of search results.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the indicia of risk is presented as the risk based icon for each sponsored link displayed on a page associated with the plurality of search results.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein in response to the indicia of risk being associated with a low reputation site the warning window is displayed including at least one link to initiate a virus scan.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein in response to the indicia of risk for a link of the plurality of search results being associated with a low reputation site, the link associated with the indicia of risk is colored different from other links that are not associated with a low reputation site.

5. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for performing operations, comprising:

presenting a plurality of search results within a graphical user interface; and

presenting an indicia of risk associated with the plurality of search results within the graphical user interface, wherein the indicia of risk is presented as a risk based icon for each link of the plurality of search results, and wherein a warning window is displayed based on an analysis, which detects that an object on a particular website is attempting to obtain information about a user, and wherein the warning window includes a recommendation to the user based on a reputational characteristic of the particular website; and

providing one or more links to alternative websites that offer content similar to that of the particular website, and wherein the alternative websites offer a higher reputational characteristic for managing personal information, wherein the alternative websites are determined using categorization data in a process that includes;

identifying a popular category of web content; and

selecting the alternative websites based on their respective popularity and security characteristics.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the analysis includes an analysis involving a heuristic.

7. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the analysis includes an automatic analysis.

8. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the analysis includes a dynamic analysis of an executable.

9. A system including a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:

a graphical user interface for;

displaying a plurality of search results;

presenting an indicia of risk associated with the plurality of search results within the graphical user interface, wherein the indicia of risk is presented as a risk based icon for each link of the plurality of search results, and wherein a warning window is displayed based on an analysis, which detects that an object on a particular website is attempting to obtain information about a user, and wherein the warning window includes a recommendation to the user based on a reputational characteristic of the particular website; and

providing one or more links to alternative websites that offer content similar to that of the particular website, and wherein the alternative websites offer a higher reputational characteristic for managing personal information, wherein the alternative websites are determined using categorization data in a process that includes;

identifying a popular category of web content; and

selecting the alternative websites based on their respective popularity and security characteristics.