CPC H04L 63/1416 (2013.01) [H04L 63/1483 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A method for providing threat protection in documents, the method comprising:
determining that a link in a document is selected, wherein the document is received as an attachment to a message;
in response to determining that the link in the document is selected, calling a threat protection client module with the selected link;
in response to receiving an indication from the threat protection client module that the selected link is directed to a malicious uniform resource locator (URL), causing a link activation module to generate a warning page; and
in response to determining that the selected link is at least one of a hypertext transfer protocol (http) link and a hypertext transfer protocol secure (https) link, activating the selected link.
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