Patent ID: 8087080

Claim:
A method of inspecting downloadable content for malicious codes, the method comprising: receiving a web page in a client computer, the web page including a reference to a web widget; automatically downloading the web widget over a computer network into the client computer using the reference when the web page is received in the client computer; the web widget automatically executing in the client computer to install hooks in the web page to detect a mouse cursor pointed to a link on the web page, the link being to a downloadable file available from a first server computer remotely located from the client computer; responding to the detection of the mouse cursor pointed to the link by inspecting the downloadable file for malicious code in a second server computer remotely located from the client computer, the second server computer being different from the first server computer; and displaying a warning message in the client computer when the inspection of the downloadable file in the second server computer indicates that the downloadable file contains malicious code.