Addon Spotlight: Addons 101

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3-10-2008 @ 11:20AM

npm said...

To mitigate issues with trusting updaters I'd recommend using a Firewall and having the default rule be to block out-going connections from unapproved applications. That way if you get a keylogger, the thing it is going to do is not just log your key strokes but it has to send them somewhere. If you get a message that pops up and says "Allow program Xyz access to host 126.35.101.123?" and you've got no idea what that is then you know you have a problem.

AVG Internet Security came bundled with a nice firewall and it was preconfigured to do exactly this.

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