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Questions and Answers / Proxo Forum Log in Cookies
« on: May 28, 2002, 12:02:01 PM »
While fixing a problem logging into this forum, I noticed that the cookie lists the member password and name in clear text form without any encryption of any type.  I consider this a security problem, can anything be done about it?

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Questions and Answers / Accessing local files with Opera
« on: May 27, 2002, 06:38:27 PM »
Jor,

Opera 6.03 was just released this mourning and it apparently has fixed the problem with the bookmarklets.  Since they haven't announced it or put it on the front page yet, here is a link:

http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?opsys=Windows&lang=en&uilang=en&version=6.03

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

Edited by - Seeker on 27 May 2002  19:40:20

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Questions and Answers / Accessing local files with Opera
« on: May 22, 2002, 01:47:10 PM »
JD5000,

Well, it took me and another Opera forum member a couple of days to work out the Kinks in the procedure, but we finally got it to work!!!  This was exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you, you are a gentleman and a scholar. :)

Jor,

This procedure works in 6.02 also, this is the version that I set it up in.

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

Edited by - Seeker on 22 May 2002  14:50:43

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Questions and Answers / Accessing local files with Opera
« on: May 20, 2002, 10:06:29 AM »
Jak and Jor,

Thanks for the responses.  Jor, in response to your question, I have several versions of 6.02 installed including 1066 and 1087.  I'm hanging on to them because of the bookmarklet problem, among other things. You are correct about Opera not being designed to launch external programs, but one forum member has reported a method to accomplish this, to a degree, by changing the file type associations for .exe file to open with the default application.  This is not practical, since it would mean constantly changing this association back and forth to either download or open these files. I've always figured that where there's a will, there's a way,(maybe not in this case). I guess what would be needed is a way to only open a selective exe, while downloading the rest.  I tried renaming the OFE file to an arbitrary extension, and creating a new file type in Opera preferences to deal with it,but so far, I haven't been able to make it work.  Still trying.

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Questions and Answers / Accessing local files with Opera
« on: May 18, 2002, 02:14:12 AM »
A problem which has persisted through a number installations of Opera, Proxomitron and even 2 or 3 HD formats, is that I'm unable to access local files using Opera's builtin explorer function.  When I click on a file, the download manager popsup and wants to download it.  Even if you let it try, it fails.  This may sound like a problem strictly with Opera, but I also have tried to use a procedure for using the Hotlist to bookmarks a local file so as to be able to use it in lieu of a program launcher.  Both of the procedures work well for other Opera users and the only difference that I can see, is that they aren't using Proxo.  The path for the file that I have bookmarked is as follows:

C:/Program Files/Communications/Internet/Browsers/Opera6.02/O4fe.exe

When I click on it, this is what appears in the address field:

file://localhost/C:/Program Files/Communications/Internet/Browsers/Opera6.02/O4fe.exe

I just get an error box saying that it could not locate the file.  I may be barking up the wrong tree, but I have a feeling that Proxo is blocking these functions.  I have tried to set Opera proxy settings to bypass Proxo for this, but with the same result.  

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

Edited by - seeker on 18 May 2002  11:21:19

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Questions and Answers / Which browser is more Secure?
« on: May 15, 2002, 05:59:49 AM »
JAK,

The best trojan detection program that I know of is called the "Trojan Defense Suite, or TDS3".  It is not free, but it does have a 30 day evaluation period.  That is okay with me, because the only problem that I had with it is that it associated itself with files all over the computer, so I only install it when I think there may be a problem.  This program performs just about every kind of conceivable test, and does not rely just on what the programmers have deemed necessary to include in a detection routine, like Ad Aware, etc.

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

Edited by - seeker on 15 May 2002  07:01:35

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Questions and Answers / Using CSS to hide Ad containers
« on: May 14, 2002, 05:15:31 AM »
I agree with everything that you said, except that ALL browsers have security holes,  I guess it depends on how you define a hole.  If you go by the pcflank tests, then your statement is true, because it seems impossible to filter out any possible exploit that is funneled through a browser, but if the definition is limited to that of meaning a flaw or defect of design that permits unknown and unforeseen intrusion by an outside entity, then as far as Opera goes, I feel that it is innocent until proven guilty.

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Questions and Answers / Using CSS to hide Ad containers
« on: May 14, 2002, 03:41:15 AM »
On the subject of Netscape/Mozilla security, check out this thread:

http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2775

As indicated in the thread, Mozilla has fixed this problem, but the last that I heard, Netscape hasn't even responded to this, much less than fix the problem.

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Security / Kill off-site Images
« on: May 13, 2002, 04:59:32 PM »
Thanks Arne,

That make it easy, and I think your answer is one that I can use on any other filter changes that I may make in the future.  :)

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Questions and Answers / Proxo blocking access
« on: May 13, 2002, 04:50:39 PM »
Yep, that change in the browser protocols seems to have fixed the problem.  I don't understand why it worked okay in the past with that configuration, but I  just glad to have Proxo running again without the problem.  Thanks for the solution.

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Questions and Answers / Proxo blocking access
« on: May 13, 2002, 11:39:31 AM »
Thanks to everybody for your interest and repsponses to my problem.  I will try Scott's recommendation for Opera's protocols, however, I have had the FTP protocol enable through Proxo in the past without problems.  But, I'm game to try almost anything to fix this.  If that doesn't work, I'll take Arne's offer about uploading the configuration file.  :)

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Questions and Answers / Proxo blocking access
« on: May 10, 2002, 09:34:14 PM »
After going through a long process of elimination, I finally figured out that Proxo was the cause for the inability to access some particular website's downloads, especially those which redirected me to an FTP address.  I had previously tried to bypass Proxo at those locations to see if it was the problem, but that had no effect.  After eliminating every other possibility that I could think of, I uninstalled Proxo, but even this did not change anything.  Only after cleaning the registry of all Proxo related keys, etc. was I able unblock the site.  Proxo will remain temporarily uninstalled until this can be fixed, I hope someone may have a solution.  I am using version 4.2 with the original filters.  There were other complications involved, but rather than trying to explain them, here is a link to a thread that I posted at the Opera forum:

http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=14354&t=3217#post14354

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Security / Kill off-site Images
« on: May 09, 2002, 04:20:34 AM »
Arne,

I haven't quite figured out the S.O.P. to be used in using a update such as this.  In the line "match=", the replacement text is only a little more than half of the text that currently exist in the matching expression window.  Should one replace all of this text with the shorter version, or only the relevant part?

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Questions and Answers / Proxo and dialup connections
« on: April 15, 2002, 01:10:22 AM »
Thank you for your response.  It is true that it isn't necessary to uninstall Proxo, but I was troubleshooting a password cookie problem on the Opera browser and wanted to eliminate any possibility of interference from Proxo.  The was no interference, but removing the proxy settings from Opera and IE didn't restore the dialup.  I checked the dialup adapter and tcp-ip in network, which appeared normal, but found that a couple of windsock dlls were missing from the Windows directory.  For some reason, I couldn't extract these from the CD and not being able to get online, I was left with no choice but the reformat.  Like I said before, this may not have had anything to do with Proxo at all, but I just wanted to check on it.

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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Questions and Answers / Proxo and dialup connections
« on: April 14, 2002, 11:39:09 PM »
I recently had to reformat C: to clear up a problem after uninstalling Proxo for troubleshooting purposes.  I was able to dialup the ISP but wasn't able to navigate anywhere.  Was this a coincidence, or is there some special steps to be taken when uninstalling it.  I have not yet reinstalled Proxo, because of this question.  Any help would be appreciated.

"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath"

James 1:19 <><

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