Re: Secure Internet Browsing

["Liam Jewell" <ljjewell () gmail com>]

While Anonym.OS hasn't been maintained for a while now, it still works.

Additionally if you were looking for an option that was Windows
compliant and didn't require a live cd, I wrote an article about
browsing anonymously the other day:
http://www.liamjewell.com/wordpress/?p=90

Cheers!
Liam

On Jan 10, 2008 2:01 PM, Shamanovsky, Victor (x2035)
<vshamanovsky () pbwt com> wrote:
> Check out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonym.OS
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Orlin Gueorguiev
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:38 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Secure Internet Browsing
>
> If you need a computer for only browzing, you can just use a live cd(whitout
> mounting a hdd). This will however mean, that you will be unable to save any
> information on the hard disk. However you can save it on an online storage or
> better: usb. If you use an encrypted file system on this device and not
> allowed executing files from the usb, more of your problems should be out.
> Every restart of the system will trow you to a secure enviroment.
> The first Live CD was Knoppix, not a bad distro. Almoast every Linux distro
> has a live cd... check what programs (and versions) come on those cds and if
> not setisfied, try this:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_LiveCD_and_LiveUSB
>
> Regards,
> Orlin
>
> На Wednesday 26 December 2007 17:08:04 Rodrigo Blanco написа:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > these days I have been taking a look at the solution for secure
> > Internet browsing based on VMWare player + Browser Appliance (Ubuntu
> > virtual image running firefox). I especially like three things of it:
> > apprently more resistant to virus / spyware / malware, browser does
> > not run with admin / root privileges and the auto-revert feature, that
> > will automatically revert the machine to its original state, no matter
> > what visited sites have added (cookies, malware...) to the client.
> >
> > I had already heard of other solutions, more suitable for corporate
> > environments, such as a Citrix-based IE browser, on a machine that is
> > re-built everyday (maybe through some virtualization solution) so that
> > any infection is automatically eliminated daily.
> >
> > While these solutions will help prevent against spyware, malware and
> > viruses, I still have the feeling they still would be vulnerable to
> > keyloggers or resident programs able to capture mouse / GUI events.
> > I.e. if the machine running the VMPlayer has a keylogger running, it
> > would still be able to capture keystrokes sent to the Browser
> > Appliance virtual machine.
> >
> > What is your opinion? Do you know of solutions that will provide a
> > "reasonably complete" security for browsing? Are they suitable for
> > both home and corporate environments?
> >
> > Thanks for any comments and kind regards,
> > Rodrigo.
>
>
>
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