[dba-Tech] friends don't let friends use ie

Hi Jim

No, it is a DNS blocker only. This means that if you visit a page with a banner add from a malicious site, this banner will be replaced with a blue square with a white cross. But otherwise harmless tracking URLs will be allowed. To stop these, use the In-Private setting of your browser and/or use a local proxy like:

    http://www.privoxy.org/

which filters most advertising URLs. I have tested this for some months now, and it seems to work well. The only issue I've seen is, that sometimes it blocks a URL just because it contains "ad". However, it tells you this and offers you to load it anyway.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 1. maj 2014 02:55
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] friends don't let friends use ie

Hi Gustav:

If you could guarantee unanimity of anonymous surfing and absolute identity privacy...being as you are a CSIS dealer, I would be very interested.

Jim   

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From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 3:54:21 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] friends don't let friends use ie

Hi Mark

Yes, and at the same time Google's recordings of your doings will cease (if you don't use Chrome or Gmail, of course).

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Mark Breen
Sendt: 30. april 2014 12:00
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] friends don't let friends use ie

Hi Gustav

so in a house, or in a small company, is the means of using SecureDNS to set the external DNS lookup to a special IP address, IOW, in my house I would put my router to point to secureDNS server instead of 8.8.8.8 and that it, the whole house is protected ?

If it was like that, it looks good??




On 30 April 2014 09:56, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Mark
>
> Yes, even with the "corporate" label, these services are priced fair.
> Secure DNS is about USD 30 per user per year.
> In practice, it is "all or none" as you normally will include all 
> users in a department or - for a small business - the whole shop.
> Of course, you can manually adjust network settings of individual 
> machines but then you miss the overall security.
>
> We use it here, and it has brought relief indeed to the ladies as 
> these previously were scared to death by all the stories in the press 
> about hijacked keyboards and stolen passwords. You can tell from here 
> to eternity that everything is safe (antivirus is installed on 
> workstations, and these users really behave when browsing, so risk is
> minimal) but they want documentation and that is the bright accessory in the SecureDNS package.
>
> /gustav
>
>
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> Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:
> dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Mark Breen
> Sendt: 30. april 2014 10:20
> Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] friends don't let friends use ie
>
> Hello Gustav
>
> I looked at secureDNS last time you post it, and I think I did see 
> pricing, but I cannot today
>
> is there publicly quoted prices ?  Or if not, is there approximate pricing ?
>
> thank you
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> On 30 April 2014 08:55, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Peter
> >
> > Indeed. Use SecureDNS:
> >
> > http://www.csis.dk/en/business/securedns/
> >
> > It blocks access to malicious domains. Extremely effective and quite 
> > cheap. Your accounting clients will love it.
> > Also, it is a very powerful tool if your are audited as it logs and 
> > documents all outgoing activity where DNS requests take place.
> > See this example:
> >
> >     http://1drv.ms/QYzhna
> >
> > Disclaimer: We are a dealer for CSIS.
> >
> > /gustav
> >
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> > Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:
> > dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Peter Brawley
> > Sendt: 29. april 2014 22:22
> > Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > Emne: [dba-Tech] friends don't let friends use ie
> >
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/27/oops_we_did_it_again_microsoft_warns_of_ie_zero_day/
> > ?
> >
> > Apparently the safest rule is to never browse the internet with any 
> > version of Internet Explorer. If you need to download sonmething 
> > from a Microsoft site, or if you need an IE-requiring functionality 
> > on another site you trust, navigate there with FF or Chrome or 
> > Safari, copy the url to IE, do you business, then close IE right away.
> >
> > Any exceptions?
> >
> > PB