Posted: March 13th, 2007
Note To Self: take a look at firekeeper – project page, project weblog.
Firekeeper is an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Firefox. It is able to detect, block and warn the user about malicious sites. Firekeeper uses flexible rules similar to Snort ones to describe browser based attack attempts. Rules can also be used to effectively filter different kinds of unwanted content.
Other features of Firekeeper include:
* Ability to scan incoming Firefox traffic – HTTP(S) response headers, body and URL and to cancel processing of suspicious responses.
* HTTPS and compressed responses are scanned after decryption/decompression.
* Very fast pattern matching algorithm (taken directly from Snort).
* Interactive alerts that give an ability to choose a response to detected attack attempt.
* Ability to use any number of files with rules and to automatically load files from remote locations.
Posted: March 13th, 2007
I’ve been meaning to make a decent post explaining why you should use the NoScript extension in firefox but I can never get around to it and end up forgetting for months at a time only to forget all about it again so I’m gonna leave here the link, say “It’s a Good Thing” and leave you to figure out why.
Here’s a nice and recent example.
Javascript is pretty powerful and with great power comes great responsibility or something like that… I’m gonna go to sleep before I say any more weird stuff.
Posted: March 13th, 2007
I learned about Linux themes in Windows via the Tux Vermelho blog (in Portuguese) which in turn learned about it from the Tech by Colin blog (in English). I’ll mirror the instructions here just in case:
1 – Download the Belchfire to patch to make Windows accept new themes (hurray for MS crippleware) from here.
2 – Download a Visual Style (Colin recomends these):
* Clearlooks
* Human
* Plastik
I went with clearlooks (same one I usually use in Linux).
3 – Icons. Get the Tango Patcher. Previews here.
I went with Tangerine (though I usually use the OSX icons in Linux – they are just sooo purrty).
4 – Tango for Firefox and Tango/Tangerine for uTorrent. You may be able to find (some of) these themes for other applications too.
And that’s all folks.