This extension could a first step to get to install NoScript...

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Hi malware fighters,

The best way to maintain your in-browser security comes through installing a Mozilla type browser extension by the name of NoScript, Giorgio Maone’s add-on was never beaten and was the best that came around in in-browser protection tools, better even to combine it with RequestPolicy extension to make that external requests from the website viewed cannot run.

Now for the users that feel that they are not quite ready for fiddling with NoScript there is a very nice add-on to have protection: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/encrypt-web-https-everywhere-firefox-extension
You can even tweak the settings to rulesites to sites of your liking, re: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/rulesets

But remember that the code was taken from NS as you can read in this thread on the NS forum, I started to reply to it under my nick “luntrus”: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4417

polonus

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I see a problem in using this add-on if the many sites it changes to https, etc. will stop the web shield being able to scan the content.

So for me that is a no, no.

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Hi DavidR,

I have used it next to NS in the configuration it comes in (see preferences), updated now to the newest version yesterday. that is 0.1.2, and have not encountered anything that could make it a no, no for me, I would rather say a yea, yea, yea ,by the way the makers of it are not amateurs either, quite a good privacy organization,

pol

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Sorry, but no matter what happens, forcing https also forces the inability of avast’s web shield to scan that content.

So in supposedly making it easier to use no script you open up a hole in your security by not being to scan those pages with the web shield and for me nothing changes that.

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Like David, I’d also rather depend on avast! then an extension. :slight_smile:

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Polonus, I feel the same as the others…