[LINK] Security versus the Web

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Can do at home, Craig. But. At office, cannot install exes through firewall
without permission. ..so yes, I'll get permission! But the pig ignorance of
the designers staggers me! "We'll do it this way and if you don't like it,
tough."

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Sanders [mailto:cas at taz.net.au] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:38 AM
> To: Chirgwin, Richard
> Cc: 'link at anu.edu.au'
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Security versus the Web
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:01:54AM +1000, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> > Is it possible to forever kill IE download requests?
> 
> install junkbuster[1].  get it to filter out such junk - 
> either from all sites
> or from all but a handful of approved sites.
> 
> BTW, you'll find that the web is a lot more pleasant without 
> all those animated
> banner ads (i wouldn't mind them if they weren't animated, 
> but all that
> flashing is distracting from what i'm trying to read...which 
> is why i wrote my
> own ad blocker years ago, but it's no use unless you run unix 
> & the squid
> proxy.  junkbuster works for windows machines.  free software).
> 
> 
> [1] http://internet.junkbuster.com/
> 
> craig
>