SELECTIVE WEBSITE VULNERABILITY AND INFECTION TESTING

摘要

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for selective website vulnerability and infection testing and intelligently paced rigorous direct website testing. By providing robust website content integrity checking while only lightly loading the website hosting server, visitor bandwidth availability is maintained through selective testing and intelligently paced external website exercising. A modular pod-based computing architecture of interconnected severs configured with a sharded database facilitates selective website testing and intelligent direct website test pacing while providing scalability to support large numbers of website testing subscribers.

主权项

1. A method of selective website vulnerability and infection scanning, comprising:
accessing website content of each of a plurality of websites by a computer remotely connected to the plurality of websites over a network; processing the accessed website content with the computer in order to extract a set of links for further analysis, the processing comprising at least one of: using flash decoding to examine flash generated web page content to extract links, executing javascript to examine web page content that includes javascript to extract links, analyzing link location in a web page to extract links that appear after an apparent bottom of the web page, and analyzing link type and link occurrence in a web page to extract links meeting a link type criteria with a link occurrence count that exceeds a corresponding threshold value for that link type criteria; storing the set of links in a non-transient computer readable medium accessible to the computer; and analyzing with the computer each link of the stored set of links using previously stored lists of links and third-party link quality information, thereby determining suspect links that are further processed for vulnerability and infection identification.