Safe Surfing With Firekeeper
Sarah Perez on May 16th, 2007
The Internet is Dangerous! In a research paper put out by Google engineers, it was reported that malware downloads are found in 1 out of every 10 websites. This study was based on the analysis of 4.5 million URLs, out of which 450,000 contained some form of malicious code. (via Webware). So, what can you do? Well, if you’re a Firefox user (as you should be!), you can use Firekeeper. With Firekeeper, a Firefox add-on, you can detect, block and get warnings about malicious websites. Although still in alpha, this intrusion detection and prevention system is a good, and free, way of keeping yourself safe on the net.
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What do you think about Site Advisor:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/
via
http://firekeeper.mozdev.org/faq.html#siteadvisor:
“SiteAdvisor is a proprietary project developed by McAfee company. It checks out every visited link against central, online database and displays information about malicious sites. SiteAdvisor is continuously scanning the Internet using an automatic search engine. It has a very large data base of sites but still a lot of places are not scanned. Another problem is that information about sites that it provides can be obsolete. It is impossible to detect exploits just after they are discovered in this way, because it requires rescanning of every site again. And last but not least, SiteAdvisor evaluates a site that is presented to its robot and unfortunately, it can be different that one presented to the user. It is rather possible to detect SiteAdvisor’s robot and to present a different content to it than to regular users. In contrast Firekeeper provides live scanning of a content that is delivered to the user. It can scan every web page user visits, and it can use new rule to detect malicious sites immediately after it is written. Firekeeper is created mainly to detect exploits and SiteAdvisor to detect sites with malware.”
so, idk, but firekeeper sounds a little better…