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1. A method for moderating bandwidth consumption of a hosting system for a set of commonly hosted websites on which vulnerability and infection testing is to be performed, the method comprising:
determining, with a computer remotely connected to the set of commonly hosted websites over a network, an expected bandwidth consumption by users due to non-testing access to at least a portion of the set of commonly hosted websites of the hosting system at a time when the vulnerability and infection testing of the commonly hosted websites is to commence; comparing, with the computer remotely connected to the set of commonly hosted websites, the determined expected bandwidth consumption by users of the hosting system to a predetermined threshold value; selecting, with the computer remotely connected to the set of commonly hosted websites, at least one of lower bandwidth consuming procedures and higher bandwidth consuming procedures of the vulnerability and infection testing to be performed at the time when infection testing is to commence, wherein the higher bandwidth consuming procedures are selected if the determined expected bandwidth consumption by users of the hosting system is lower than the predetermined threshold value; selecting, by the computer remotely connected to the set of commonly hosted websites, a website from the set of commonly hosted websites; and scanning, by the computer remotely connected to the set of commonly hosted websites, the content of the selected website at a pace determined by the selected higher or lower bandwidth consuming procedures. |
