Multi-platform user device malicious website protection system
A security system for defending online users against fraudsters and malicious websites comprises a back-end network server and appropriate apps for each protected user device. An otherwise conventional network server is enhanced with application software instructions for a centralized software-as-a-service (SaaS) to respond to network requests from user devices operating variously under ANDROID-type, APPLE IOS-type, and MICROSOFT WINDOWS-type operating systems. The SaaS investigates, surveys, and watches websites. It calculates confidence scores related to financial fraud and the acceptability and risk to said users of visiting particular websites. It maintains a trusted network database of website URL's calculated to belong to financial websites that can be trusted and present acceptable levels of fraud and financial risk to its visitors. Each user device application provides for secure password management and access via a security browser to websites in the trusted network.
1. A computer network system for defending online users against fraudsters and malicious websites, comprising:
a network server for shielding a variety of online users from fraudsters and malicious websites, comprising software instructions for a centralized software-as-a-service (SaaS) to:
respond to network requests from user devices operating variously under at least one operating systems;
generate and distribute a corresponding trusted root certificate memory recording and personal identification number (PIN) on enrollment of each one of said user devices;
investigate, survey, and watch websites that have been reported by their corresponding URL's as having been used by, or are presently being visited by, or that are predetermined as likely to be visited by any one of said user devices; and
maintain a trusted network database of website URL's calculated to belong to financial websites that can be trusted and present acceptable levels of fraud and financial risk to its visitors; and
a user device application for shielding a particular online user from fraudsters and malicious websites, comprising downloadable software instructions for enabling a user device having a communications network interface and operating under at least one operating system to:
obtain and store a trusted root certificate memory recording and a personal identification number (PIN) from the SaaS;
construct a password manager as an interactive graphic on a screen, and that requires said PIN from said user in order to thereafter automatically supply conforming passwords to a trusted websites;
construct a safe search engine able to interact with said user and to calculate confidence scores for each search result displayed to the user; and
render on-screen a services suite as a graphical user interface (GUI) visually arranged in a dashboard configuration for automated user access to a limited set of services electronically represented as a bulletin-board of developing collection of posters, and constructed to offer the user a diversity of interrelated products and services;
manage a plurality of passwords corresponding to financial websites subscribed to by a user and to provide them automatically to any website URL recognized in the trusted network database; and
limit browser navigation by a user visiting a financial website the trusted network database to functioning solely through a secure view browser;
wherein, said trusted root certificate memory recording and PIN establish two security factors embedded within for user authentication protocols over the communications network interface;
wherein users can be prevented from accessing potentially malicious websites.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user device application further comprises software instructions to:
implement said GUI as a display window on a user display, and configure it for presentation as a window split with a first part and a second part;
dispose a list of financial account hyperlinks in said first part and configure it to provide user access via a pointing device and a browser display window to preregistered financial websites with previously established user credentials for secure network sessions;
dispose a list of non-financial account hyperlinks in said first part and configure them to provide access via said pointing device and a browser display window to preregistered non-financial websites with previously established user credentials for secure network sessions;
place an electronic bulletin-board in said second part of said window; and
position at least one offer-to-sell hypertext poster for viewing in the bulletin-board;
wherein the personal data protection suite is configured to be accessible only to subscribers belonging to a single organization.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user device application further comprises software instructions to:
include an install-now hyperlink button and a learn-more link, wherein each mechanize a link to a third party website configured to be launched thereby and to complete a download and an installation of a corresponding user application program to the user device.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user device application further comprises software instructions to:
install a bulletin-board management processor to populate a bulletin-board with hypertext posters, wherein each hypertext poster is supported by a poster processor to mechanize a link via a browser window to corresponding third-party websites, and that are configured to be launched thereby to complete a download and installation of a respective user application program to the user device.
5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the user device application further comprises software instructions to:
include a hyperlink control button in each offer-to-sell hypertext poster, and configured to link via a browser window to a third-party website for an application download if such application is not already installed on the user computer.
6. The computer network system of claim 1 , further comprising a user device application for shielding a particular online user from fraudsters and malicious websites, comprising downloadable software instructions to:
implement an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) as a display window on a user display connected to a user device and pointing device, and configured for presentation of a window split into a first part and a second part;
place a financial account list of hyperlinks in said first part and configure them to provide user access via said pointing device and a browser display window to preregistered financial websites with previously established user credentials for secure network sessions;
place a non-financial account list of hyperlinks also disposed in said first part and configure them to provide access via said pointing device and a browser display window to preregistered non-financial websites with previously established user credentials for secure network sessions; and
visually positioning at least one offer-to-sell hypertext in said second part of said split window and including an install-now hyperlink button and a learn-more link, wherein each offer-to-sell hypertext mechanizes a browser link to a third party website, and each offer-to-sell hypertext is configured to be launched thereby to complete a download and installation of a corresponding user application program to the user device.