Systems and methods for dynamic protection from electronic attacks

1. A system for reducing the security risk of transactions with a computer over a computer network, said system comprising:

a. a computer network;

b. a first computer on said computer network, said first computer having a first computer network address and said first computer communicating with a second computer on said computer network;

c. a communication between said first computer and said second computer, said act of said first computer communicating with said second computer being indicative of a user of said first computer being engaged in a risk activity and said communication including said first computer network address;

d. a monitoring system on said computer network having one or more monitoring agents autonomously obtaining said first computer network address from said communication between said first computer and said second computer; and

e. one or more algorithms assigning a risk score to transactions over said computer network from said first computer network address, said risk based at least in part on content on said second computer;

wherein said monitoring system utilizes said risk score to inhibit a communication between said first computer and a third computer.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein said computer network is the Internet.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein said first computer network address is an Internet Protocol address.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or more of said one or more monitoring agents is selected from the group consisting of: a bot; a daemon; a terminate-and-stay-resident program; a honeypot; a computer; a virtual computer; a network device; a virtual network device; a spider; a P2P networking client; a P2P networking server; a packet filter; a packet sniffer; a firewall; a chat client; a chat server; a file transfer client; a file transfer server; a newsgroup reader; a newsgroup server provider; a file sharing client; a file sharing server; a web server; a web site; a web page; a translation program; a genetic algorithm; a learning algorithm; a self-replicating program; a worm; a Trojan horse.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or more of said one or more algorithms is selected from the group consisting of: pattern recognition; inferential algorithm; planning algorithm; heuristic algorithm; logical algorithm; search algorithm; decision tree algorithm; red-black tree algorithm; Levensthein algorithm; CacheHill algorithm; PCRE algorithm; Oliver decision graph algorithm; genetic algorithm; learning algorithm; self-teaching algorithm; self-modifying algorithm.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein said risk activity is selected from the group consisting of: fraud; identify theft; crime; cyberbullying; denial-of-service; hacking; virus authoring or distribution; exploit authoring or distribution; digital piracy; intellectual property infringement; pornography production or distribution; controlled substance trade; terrorism; insurrection; smuggling; organized crime; civil disobedience; money laundering.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein said risk score is provided through an application programming interface.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein said risk score is in the value range 0 to 100 inclusive.

9. A non-transitory computer readable media, said media comprising:

a. computer-readable instructions for detecting a communication between a first computer and a second computer, said act of said first computer communicating with said second computer being indicative of a user of said first computer being engaged in a risk activity;

b. computer-readable instructions for obtaining a network address from said first computer;

c. computer-readable instructions for assigning a risk score and a risk category to said first computer network address, said risk category based at least in part on the content of said second computer;

d. computer-readable instructions for storing said risk score and said risk category; and

e. computer-readable instructions for utilizing said risk score and said risk category to inhibit communication between said first computer and a third computer.

10. The media of claim 9 , wherein said first computer network address is an Internet Protocol address.

11. The media of claim 9 , wherein said risk category is selected from the group consisting of: commercial risk; fraud risk; identify theft risk; criminal risk; social risk; denial-of-service risk; hacking risk; virus risk; exploit risk; infringement risk; pornography risk; drug risk; terrorism risk.

12. The media of claim 9 , wherein said risk score is in the value range 0 to 100 inclusive.