Systems and methods for determining and quantifying the impact of an application on the health of a system

摘要

A computer-implemented method for determining whether an application impacts the health of a system may comprise detecting an application, performing a first system-health evaluation, allowing the application to install on the system, performing a second system-health evaluation after the application is installed on the system, and comparing the second system-health evaluation with the first system-health evaluation to determine whether the application impacted the health of the system. Exemplary methods for determining the potential impact of an application on the health of a system and for calculating a system-health-impact score for an application based on information gathered from a plurality of systems are also disclosed. Corresponding systems and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for determining the potential impact of an application on the health of a computing device that comprises at least one processor, the method comprising:
detecting, at the computing device, an application; identifying, at the computing device, a unique identifier associated with the application; transmitting, from the computing device to a server, a request for information that identifies the potential impact of the application on the health of the computing device, wherein the request uniquely identifies the application using the unique identifier; receiving, at the computing device, the information from the server that identifies the potential impact of the application on the health of the computing device, wherein:the information is calculated based at least in part on data obtained by the server from at least one additional computing device on which the same application has previously been installed;
the information received from the server comprises a health-impact score that quantifies the potential impact of the application on the health of the computing device; determining, at the computing device based at least in part on the information received from the server, whether to install the application on the computing device.