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Re: Firekeeper - IDS for Firefox available



On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jex wrote:

> 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. ^^

SandboxIE is a virtual environment that prevents malware that gets
installed when you surf the web from directly accessing your hard
drive. Firekeeper tries to detect malicious sites that are using
browser vulnerabilities for example to install malware, to spoof URL
of the web page etc.

Jan Wrobel