Receiving Security Risk Feedback From Linked Contacts Due to a User's System Actions and Behaviors

An information handling system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
• a network adapter that connects the information handling system to a computer network;
• and
• a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to assess risk to a user of the information handling system due to a link to a social network contact, wherein the set of instructions perform actions of:
• receiving a plurality of feedback transmissions, each of the feedback transmissions being received over a computer network from a social network contact;
• analyzing the received feedback transmissions;
• identifying, based on the analysis, a risky action performed by a user;
• and
• performing a risk avoidance measure to counteract the identified risky action.

A computer program product stored in a computer readable medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include:

• receiving a plurality of feedback transmissions, each of the feedback transmissions being received over a computer network from a social network contact;
• analyzing the received feedback transmissions;
• identifying, based on the analysis, a risky action performed by a user;
• and
• performing a risk avoidance measure to counteract the identified risky action.

A method comprising:

• receiving a plurality of feedback transmissions, each of the feedback transmissions being received over a computer network from a social network contact;
• identifying, based on the analysis, a risky action performed by a user;
• identifying a risky action category corresponding to the identified risky action;
• analyzing the received feedback transmissions, wherein the analysis further comprises:
• retrieving a plurality of contact risky action values received by the user from a set of contacts, wherein the contact risky action values correspond to the identified category;
• retrieving a user risky action value corresponding to the identified category;
• and
• comparing the contact risky action values to the user risky action value;
• performing a risk avoidance measure to counteract the identified risky action;
• generating a risk avoidance statement based upon the performed risk avoidance measure;
• and
• transmitting the generated risk avoidance statement to one or more of the user's social network contacts.