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Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> With wireshark I found, that firefox accesses sites on startup, from |
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> which I dont know, for what reason this access is needed or whether |
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> the NSA, CIA, FBI, BDN, MOSSAD (fill in what organisation you ever |
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> suspect to do such things) has invaded my PC. |
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> I want to block such accesses for two reasons: First is ...hmmm... |
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> to block that accesses...second is to find out what will not work |
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> than. |
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> I dont want to install and configure a complete full blown firewalled |
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> SEL-Linux thingy here and I dont want to reboot my Linux box for every |
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> new site I added. I am looking for a simple solution, which I can use |
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> without studying the history of TCP/IP and others... ;))) |
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> What can I use for this purpose? |
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> Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> Best regards, |
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> Meino |
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Maybe net-firewall/ufw is what you are looking for. It has easy to define |
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filter rules and there also exists a graphical frontend for it |
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(net-firewall/ufw-frontends, never tested by myself). |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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