The Ubuntu Experiment

[Chris Jones]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/7/31 Steve C. Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org>:
>>    To ensure that the average users on my home network don't get their
>> machines hosed I have had to impress upon them that browsing throgh a
>> squid/adzapper proxy is a good thing, weened them off of IE as much as
>> possible, installed adblockplus...
> 
> How does adblockplus prevent virus infections? Does this apply to
> browser exploits as well? Although I use Kubuntu (a relatively secure
> OS), I am aware that Firefox can be compromised. Will adblockplus help
> keep me safe?

I'm not sure about Ad Block - I run that myself and as far as I as know 
it just blocks annoying ads coming up ... maybe there is a little 
security to it as well.

What *does* help with security is NoScript - I very much recommend using 
that, if you aren't already. Takes a little while to 'train' it for the 
sites you trust, but after that it hardly ever gets in my way and does 
prevent a lot of scripts that would otherwise be run...

Chris