Protecting users from malicious pop-up advertisements

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2011-06-14

2011-06-14

Arani, Taghi T (Department: 2438)

Information security

Monitoring or scanning of software or data including attack...

C713S152000, C715S700000, C715S781000, C715S808000, C715S809000, C726S004000

Reexamination Certificate

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07962955

ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a solution for detecting a spoofed command button in a pop-up window. The solution tracks the creation process of a pop-up window, detects the presence of command buttons in the pop-up window, verifies the value labeled on each command button in the pop-up window and determines a follow-up action generated from selecting a command button on the pop-up window.

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