Arun Khan wrote:
BTW, similar problems with Asian Age site - it requires IE for compatiblity with HTML4.01, CSS2 and JavaScript to correctly view their site!! I wonder in which world do their webmasters live - reminds of the ostrich that likes to hide it's head in the sand.
I use sygate personal firewall in my win-box and that even records packets. This can be done even with other firewalls too that log traffic. To test the mischief level of any site, clear the logs and then visit the site. In many cases these sites connect to different urls along with their own. In most cases they are passing on our information to third parties for tracking visitors or for ads. Even a site like BBC World does that and if you leave your scripting on, it will place a java applet in your system to track you and pass on the info. to third parties. As a security measure I always use my browser in no script, no cookie, no sound, no video etc. mode. Only for certain sites I temporarily allow scripts for those sessions only. For logins, I use a different non-M$ browser reserved for this purpose. Netscape 7 has the feature to tweak your cookie traffic to the bare minimum and keep them for the session only. Now I am making my customers too follow this practice for better security. You can use the firewall method to track every new software that you try out.
Hosts:- This should be the same for linux too. In the 'hosts' file, keep a list of bad urls and next to each entry give the ip 127.0.0.1. This way whenever the site seeks an irritant from a bad url, it will be diverted to localhost (your own pc) which does not have this said irritant and so the browser moves on to the next download request in the web page. This list of bad urls is available by googling the net and updates are also available.
Regards,
Rony.