Ad-Aware for Linux?

Hi all,
is there a way to keep away spyware from our network (Linux iptables
firewall and WindowsXP clients). i have heard about a list of bad ip
addresses that i can filter out with iptables. or is there a better way?
tia and best regards!

Frank Thissen schrieb:
> Hi all,
> is there a way to keep away spyware from our network (Linux iptables
> firewall and WindowsXP clients). i have heard about a list of bad ip
> addresses that i can filter out with iptables. or is there a better way?
> tia and best regards!

AdAware just scans the local computer, and I don't think that you get
much spyware on your linux-server, not only because nobody surfs on the
server (i think)

so just filter the IPs or try finding an app that scans remote hosts for
spyware, which is a very unsympathic sollution to me...

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Frank Thissen wrote:

> Hi all,
> is there a way to keep away spyware from our network (Linux iptables
> firewall and WindowsXP clients). i have heard about a list of bad ip
> addresses that i can filter out with iptables. or is there a better way?
> tia and best regards!

You are looking for either privoxy or squid. Actually, I have both of them
chained: squid as a transparent proxy forwarding to privoxy .
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In comp.os.linux.networking Frank Thissen <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Hi all,
> is there a way to keep away spyware from our network (Linux iptables
> firewall and WindowsXP clients). i have heard about a list of bad ip
> addresses that i can filter out with iptables. or is there a better way?

Yup, simply disconnect all M$ boxes completely and permanent from
the network. Recently read that even Bill Gates own home systems
had been squelched by various worms/spy-ware/etc, if he can't
secure his OS, why would you think anyone else could do it?

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Frank Thissen wrote:

> Hi all,
> is there a way to keep away spyware from our network (Linux iptables
> firewall and WindowsXP clients). i have heard about a list of bad ip
> addresses that i can filter out with iptables. or is there a better way?
> tia and best regards!

Remove them form the network.

Or don't use IE or Outlook/Outlook Express.

BeeBop wrote:

> Frank Thissen wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> is there a way to keep away spyware from our network (Linux iptables
>> firewall and WindowsXP clients). i have heard about a list of bad ip
>> addresses that i can filter out with iptables. or is there a better way?
>> tia and best regards!
>
> Remove them form the network.
>
> Or don't use IE or Outlook/Outlook Express.

BeeBop

Michael Heiming schrieb:
Recently read that even Bill Gates own home systems
> had been squelched by various worms/spy-ware/etc, if he can't
> secure his OS, why would you think anyone else could do it?
>

Maybe someone should try to sell him a Linux box

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Frank Thissen wrote:

> Hi all,
> is there a way to keep away spyware from our network (Linux iptables
> firewall and WindowsXP clients). i have heard about a list of bad ip
> addresses that i can filter out with iptables. or is there a better way?
> tia and best regards!

I use adzapper with squid, this has a good explanation
(note also the feedbacks mention a mistake in the body
of the article where the file ownership of 777 was wrong
and should be 755):
good instructions here
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7556

if you use ipcop or some other linux firewall distribution
(see http://www.ipcop.org) with squid/adzapper, then the
firewall distribution can help strip out the ads and
replace them with a harmless icon/gif, I guess if you wanted
you could setup your own 1x1 gif picture and not even
see the substituted ad (adzapper sticks in a gif that says
"Ad Zapped"). This has the added benefit of speeding up
the network since you're not pulling some ad from a
remote server but getting a static placeholder image
from the local network (even that can be a tiny thumbnail
pic if you like). The firewall box then feeds your network
(even if they are windows boxes) as the green side,
the red side is the internet.

Mark

> Remove them form the network.
>
> Or don't use IE or Outlook/Outlook Express.

For those whom require MS, but continually ask for assistance with
their viri, spyware and spam, there is FireFox, but is there an as
useful substitute for Outlook?

I like the solution of removing the MS boxes from the network above
and I have to admit it worked well for me, but this is for "those who
can't/ won't" do that.

Nairb schrieb:
>>Remove them form the network.
>>
>>Or don't use IE or Outlook/Outlook Express.
>
>
> For those whom require MS, but continually ask for assistance with
> their viri, spyware and spam, there is FireFox, but is there an as
> useful substitute for Outlook?
>
> I like the solution of removing the MS boxes from the network above
> and I have to admit it worked well for me, but this is for "those who
> can't/ won't" do that.

I'm using Mozilla, there's everything in it: a good browser, a big
mailclient, HTML editing and so on...
Standalone versions are Thunderbird for emailing and firefox (as already
mentioned) for browsing...

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