[Privoxy-devel] Removing the ie-exploits filter

[Ian Silvester]

Fine by me. 

On Thu, 30 Jan 2025, at 09:12, Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel wrote:
> 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 and IE is obsolete anyway.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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