Patent ID: 8689341

Claim:
A computer implemented method for preventing confidential information from being submitted to malicious websites, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, by a computer, data indicating attempts to submit confidential information to websites from a plurality of user computers; aggregating, by the computer, data received from the plurality of user computers; analyzing, by the computer, aggregated data to track website activity concerning solicitation of confidential information; maintaining, by the computer, current statistics concerning a duration of phishing website lifetimes; determining, by the computer, quarantine periods for websites to which users are attempting to submit confidential information, by performing statistical analysis on aggregated data indicating attempts to submit confidential information to websites and the current statistics concerning phishing website lifetimes, wherein performing statistical analysis further comprises determining statistically good fits for phishing site lifetimes as at least one of from a group consisting of: 1) cumulative probability distributions to lognormal curves, and 2) at least one other representative distribution, wherein the quarantine period is set to exceed the duration of phishing website lifetimes; and making, by the computer, the determined quarantine periods available to user computers, to quarantine attempts to submit confidential information to websites during associated quarantine periods.