[Waverley ARS] I suspect a computer virus

[Adam Carmichael]

Hi Eddie,

I think Simon originally suggested the idea, not me, I only suggested
setting up a few exceptions.

This thread is becoming less ham related as it goes on... but one of the
ideas I'm playing around with at home (and Ben, your ears may prick up
when you hear this, it's something one of our mutual friends, Andrew,
might be interested in too), is to set up Squid as a transparent proxy,
but to do filtering on it based upon the "text/javascript" MIME type.

Now imagine extending the idea from just a single Squid proxy to an
entire network of cache peers that you can route HTTP traffic through.

The idea has been done to death (think any Content Distribution Network
like Akamai), but has it been done with filtering so an ISP can use that
as a value added service for their customers?

73 VK2JSI... Adam

Simon Buxton wrote:
> Eddie
>
> I assume Websense are impartial commentators and have no interest in 
> selling security systems protecting against such attacks?
>
> We did get a problem a couple of years ago on our club picture gallery 
> when the "comment" feature was abused by posting links to porn websites. 
> This was easily fixed by unticking the comment option.
>
> The club and other websites on our server use no scripts to interact 
> with users and probably have insufficient traffic to attract malware.
>
> As Adam suggests, "No script" has options to allow scripts from each 
> site contributing to a webpage (actual host, ad servers, Google 
> analytics etc) either permanently or on a one-off basis which covers 
> most exceptions. I don't know about Flashblock, but its no problem to 
> click the window to start Flash when needed, especially with one-offs 
> such as the odd video clip.
>
> 73 Simon VK2UA
>
> Eddie Hanham wrote:
>   
>> Adam is right we need to take proactive precautions against Malware - seems
>> its an epidemic, see following article from SC Magazine.
>>
>> 73s
>>
>> Eddie
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
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