Re: Malicious emails was Re: [LUG] OT: spam

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:04:41PM +0100, Jon Lawrence wrote:
> Hi,
> You can do it using a firewall.
> There is a way to redirect all traffic to one IP address.
> Basically, redirect to ip_msupdate 80 from internal_machine to any
> I don't know the iptables commands for this as I can write exactly as above in 
> my firewall.

This is transparent proxying, which affects all connections
to a specific port. Regardless of the program which is in
use. What I want is a method of affecting just MSIE. Such
that it can only access specific web pages, whilst other 
web browsers will be unaffected. Unfortunatly squid does
not allow ACL's by user_agent or similar.

> On Friday 19 Sep 2003 5:01 pm, Mark Evans wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:18:32AM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> > > The moral, if you run Outlook or Internet Explorer your security is
> >
> > Anyone know a way to cripple Internet Explorer so it can
> > only access Windows update?
> >
> > > already toast, so don't visit any strange websites, don't read mail from
> > > people you don't trust, don't trust email headers to tell you if a mail
> > > is from someone you trust.....
> >
> > Some people insist on it.
> >

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