Re: Firekeeper - IDS for Firefox available

[Jex <hewhohuntscats@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't SandboxIE (http://www.sandboxie.com/) already do something
similar, and work on Firefox and IE?

Though more fish in the pool to bring up the competitive programming
level up is always good. ^^
-Jex

On 3/6/07, Jan Wrobel <wrobel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First official alpha release of Firekeeper - Intrusion Detection and
> Prevention System for Firefox is available for download. Firekeeper
> adds additional layer of protection to the browser. It uses flexible
> rules similar to Snort ones to describe browser based attack
> attempts. All incoming HTTP and HTTPS traffic is scanned with these
> rules. HTTPS and compressed responses are scanned after
> decryption/decompression. Suspicious response can trigger an alert that
> is displayed to the user or can be automatically cancelled, depending
> on an action specified in the rule. Firekeeper uses very effective
> pattern matching engine from Snort and with well written rules doesn't
> have a negative impact on the browser performance.
>
> More information, screenshots and download links can be found at:
> http://firekeeper.mozdev.org
> Project is GPL licensed.
>
> Comments are very welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan Wrobel
>
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