Re: xBrowser event and security

> I'm not a hacker, so I don't know much about internet security issues...

Neither do I :)

The thing works fine and I wanted it to add to Avanti which is public.
For personal use it would be ok but in this case I don't want to take
any risk and better revert to the old help system.

Thanks for the info,

Chris


--- In [email protected], Dimitris Keletsekis <gui4cli@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the question, but if you disable all the links in
> a web page and all the hidden scripts that may be lurking in the code,
> which may be triggered by events like loading a page, closing it, etc, then
> there is no mechanism to start some interaction with an outside source, so
> you should be ok. Unless you have a virus that's spying on you and is
> triggered by some type of content (like for advertising purposes, etc)
> 
> I'm not a hacker, so I don't know much about internet security issues...
> 
> Dimitris
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM, chris.kevany <chris.kevany@...>wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi Dimitris,
> >
> > First let me say that I don't consider it your responsibility
> > what people do with the Gui4Cli options.
> >
> > I'm working on a documentation browser with xBrowser events
> > which is meant to only bundle "local" html and chm documentation.
> >
> > Now I have very limited knowlege about internet but I was able
> > to block web links that may appear in html and chm files because
> > I want to to keep it only a local thing.
> >
> > I use Firefox through a proxy but found that I could easily open
> > IE or a second instance of Firefox that bypasses this proxy.
> >
> > So I blocked "out-going" traffic but I wonder what the risk is of
> > "in-comming" traffic from the internet when I open a xBrowser?
> >
> > Is there perhaps a way to block in-comming traffic too?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >  
> >
>




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