jbarby
14th July 2004, 03:34 PM
SPYWARE on my parents windoze PC ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!
TO get the obvious out of the way
My parents would not appreciate me completely formatting and loading fedora
I have loaded Mozilla Firefox and have told them time and time again not to use Internet Explorer I even changed some of the shortcuts but somehow they always get into IE (sigh)
I am getting tired of cleaning spyware off
THIS MEANS WAR!!!
I am going to place (again) a linux router/firewall between my internet line and the internal lan (instead of the simple wireless hardware router)
I was also thinking of subnetting their pc's and placing tighter firewall restrictions as they do not use that many applications. But I need more open ports for some applications I use. However they do not need to be exposed. :D
However this still wont kill all spyware that gets loaded on the pc through port 80 :(
So I am now thinking of setting up a proxy server on the linux box as well to block spyware domains (much like a hosts file except centeralized so its easier for me to manage)
I have downloaded the extension AdBlock for firefox that will block images and scripts from even loading on the web page. However my parents will most likely be using IE :mad: . If I just blocked the domains It would not be clean small boxes with images missing, popups with nothing in them (you get the idea). So is there an a way to setup a proxy server in fedora to where it will download the web page and reparse the webpage omitting domains that I specify in a file before passing it onto the internal winbox's browser so I can block spyware before it even hits the machine :confused: (I know that this would increase latency a little bit). Does some extension to Squid have this capability
TO get the obvious out of the way
My parents would not appreciate me completely formatting and loading fedora
I have loaded Mozilla Firefox and have told them time and time again not to use Internet Explorer I even changed some of the shortcuts but somehow they always get into IE (sigh)
I am getting tired of cleaning spyware off
THIS MEANS WAR!!!
I am going to place (again) a linux router/firewall between my internet line and the internal lan (instead of the simple wireless hardware router)
I was also thinking of subnetting their pc's and placing tighter firewall restrictions as they do not use that many applications. But I need more open ports for some applications I use. However they do not need to be exposed. :D
However this still wont kill all spyware that gets loaded on the pc through port 80 :(
So I am now thinking of setting up a proxy server on the linux box as well to block spyware domains (much like a hosts file except centeralized so its easier for me to manage)
I have downloaded the extension AdBlock for firefox that will block images and scripts from even loading on the web page. However my parents will most likely be using IE :mad: . If I just blocked the domains It would not be clean small boxes with images missing, popups with nothing in them (you get the idea). So is there an a way to setup a proxy server in fedora to where it will download the web page and reparse the webpage omitting domains that I specify in a file before passing it onto the internal winbox's browser so I can block spyware before it even hits the machine :confused: (I know that this would increase latency a little bit). Does some extension to Squid have this capability
