Protecting open world wide web sites from known malicious users by diverting requests from malicious users to alias addresses for the protected sites

In a Web communication network with access to a plurality of open Web sites responsive to requests from users at IP addresses throughout the Web, a method for protecting said open Web sites from known malicious users comprising;

• storing a list of the IP addresses of said known malicious users in association with a protected open Web site;
• comparing the IP addresses of each user requesting access to said protected open Web site to said list of IP addresses of said known malicious users;
• providing a plurality of alias addresses for said protected Web site;
• and
• in response to said comparing step, diverting to each of said plurality of alias addresses, one of a plurality of requests respectively from a corresponding one of a plurality of IP addresses of a plurality of malicious users, whereby the request of each of said malicious users is diverted to a different one of said alias Web site addresses.

A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for protecting said open Web sites from known malicious users in a Web communication network with access to a plurality of open Web sites responsive to requests from users at IP addresses throughout the Web comprising:

• means associated with a protected open Web site for storing a list of the IP addresses of said known malicious users;
• means for comparing the IP addresses of each user requesting access to said protected open Web site to said list of IP addresses of said known malicious users;
• means for providing a plurality of alias addresses for said protected Web site;
• and
• means responsive to said comparing means enabled to respectively divert to each of plurality of alias addresses, one of a plurality of requests respectively from a corresponding one of a plurality of IP addresses of a plurality of malicious users, whereby the request of each of said malicious users is diverted to a different one of said alias Web site addresses.

A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for protecting said open Web sites from known malicious users in a Web communication network with access to a plurality of open Web sites responsive to requests from users at IP addresses throughout the Web comprising:

• means for determining whether a user requesting access to a protected open Web site is a malicious user;
• means for providing a plurality of alias addresses for said protected Web site;
• and
• means responsive to said determining means enabled to respectively divert to each of said plurality of alias addresses, one of a plurality of requests respectively from a corresponding one of a plurality of IP addresses of a plurality of malicious users, whereby the request of each of said malicious users is diverted to a different one of said alias Web site addresses.

A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for protecting said open Web sites from known malicious users in a Web communication network with access to a plurality of open Web sites responsive to requests from users at IP addresses throughout the Web comprising:

• means associated with a protected open Web site for storing a list of the IP addresses of said known malicious users;
• means for comparing the IP addresses of each user requesting access to said protected open Web site to said list of IP addresses of said known malicious users;
• means for providing a plurality of alias addresses for said protected Web site;
• and
• means responsive to said comparing means for diverting to each of said plurality of alias addresses, one of a plurality of requests respectively from a corresponding one of a plurality of IP addresses of a plurality of malicious users, whereby the request of each of said malicious users is diverted to a different one of said alias Web site addresses.