On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:18:07AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Interesting. With the revelation that Microsoft's software is
> covertly tracking users and reporting back to Redmond, comes
> reports of Windows software that stops such nasty activities
> as the source.
>
> The software detects network requests being generated by software
> (not the user) and alerts the hapless user to the vile situation.
>
> Sluggers: is there any similar software for Linux? I know a firewall
> might go part of the way, but what is really needed is software that
> detects even outgoing request on, say, port 80 that are not generated
> by the user ... however that is defined! Prolly a config file listing
> just those apps that are allowed to make net connections.
a SOCKS firewall? (or any other firewall that allows connections, but
only after a login/password is entered)
hopefully programs won't cache passwords, reuse connections, etc too
often
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- Gus
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