Security - was Invisible Windows

[Jonesy]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:58:28 +1000, GaryT wrote:
>
> Gene, how do you avoid the possibility that someone can easily enter 
> your machine whilst you are browsing?  When I'm browsing I see a great 
> many IP addresses that belong to a wide variety of people and companies. 
> Most often advertisers on the web page, but also others.
> I use the old FireStarter for that purpose - and can see up to 50 or 70 
> different connections at times, dependent upon the Web page I'm visiting.
>
> Always Google, because they are a fixture. They watch everything.
> After I removed the hard coded link to Google from FireFox, the Google 
> presence seemed to slow a little but they are still there. There is also 
> a big server in France that receives a lot of info from my machine any 
> time I start FireFox while online. The only way I avoided that was to 
> start FireFox BEFORE going online.  But, they are there, it's hard coded 
> into the FireFox settings.
>
> Once someone has a connection, called by the web page, they can deposit 
> pretty much anything. I use Wireshark to capture all activity and there 
> is always a lot of traffic to/from organisations that are part of, or 
> have attached themselves to the browsing activity.
>
> What good is a fancy firewall in a very common case like that?

Instead, an add-on:  http://www.ghostery.com/

Jonesy