Dynamic Templates for Malware-Free Web Content Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing anti-malware solutions primarily focus on detecting malware rather than effectively removing it from infected web content, leaving users vulnerable to various forms of malicious software embedded in web pages, feeds, and messages.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes dynamic templates to identify and remove malware from web content by analyzing requested content, creating templates that indicate malware locations, types, ratings, and actions to be taken, and applying these actions to cleanse the content before delivery to users, with a web content proxy and dynamic template provider working together to ensure malware-free content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If dynamic templates are created and applied to clean web content, then malware removal effectiveness is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of web content to create dynamic templates that identify malware locations, types, and appropriate actions before content is delivered to users. This advance preparation enables effective malware removal while streamlining the actual cleaning process.
Solution Approach 2:
Dynamic templates serve as intermediary structures that mediate between the web content analyzer and the content cleaning process. These templates encode malware information and cleaning instructions, facilitating coordinated action between system components without requiring direct complex interactions.
2Reliability
If web content is analyzed and cleaned before delivery, then user safety is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system analyzes and creates dynamic templates for web content in advance, before content is requested by users. This preliminary processing captures malware information and prepares cleaning instructions, reducing the time required for actual content delivery while maintaining comprehensive safety checks.
Solution Approach 2:
The web content analyzer automatically processes content, creates templates, and identifies malware without requiring manual intervention. This automation reduces processing time while ensuring thorough analysis through systematic application of analysis rules and template generation.
Data Source
AI summary
Providing malware-free web content to a user is disclosed. The web content is any type of web content that may potentially be infected by any type of malware. Upon receiving a request for a piece of web content from the user, the requested piece of web content is obtained from the appropriate source, and a dynamic template for the piece of web content is retrieved. The dynamic template indicates whether the requested piece of web content includes any malware and what actions are to be performed if any malware is included in the piece of web content. The requested piece of web content is cleaned up by performing the actions indicated in the dynamic template. Thereafter, the piece of web content is provided to the user. The dynamic template is updated from time to time based on the currently available information regarding the piece of web content.