[Privoxy-devel] Removing the ie-exploits filter

[Fabian Keil]

Are there any objections to removing the ie-exploits filter?

According to the user manual it's supposed to be a
"collection of text replacements to disable malicious
HTML and JavaScript code that exploits known security
holes in Internet Explorer", but "[p]resently, it only
protects against Nimda and a cross-site scripting bug,
and would need active maintenance to provide more
substantial protection".

Unfortunately it doesn't actually reliably protect
against Nimda, there never were active maintainers
and IE is obsolete anyway.

Also some virus scanners seem to be offended by the
test case for the filter in the source tarball.

Fabian
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