On 01/13/2011 12:46 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
> You can learn enough about iptables to use your firewall for blocking 
> traffic to and from those sites.  Maybe you'll then find some image you're 
> used to seeing will vanish.

i read/studied 4 good books on operations of ipchains and iptables just
after iptables came out and understand what i need to do to block ip
addresses with iptables.

problems is, i have not found any rpm packages to make modifying iptables
easy. so i am now trying to figure out just how and where iptables are
set up so that i can block addresses.

i was hoping that someone might be familiar with what has been
installed/link into firefox so that i could remove it and prevent such
from happening again.

malware, for want of a better name, usually has ability to make it's own
changes to other address blocks and then go back to doing it's dastardly
deeds.

such malware is prevalent in ms os and there are programs written for
removing such.


i thank you for taking time to reply.

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peace out.

tc.hago,

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