I would like to be able to monitor which programs are allowed to access the internet, but a search for programs to do this has turned up nothing. Preferably, I would like a notification to come up every time an application uses the internet. Is there any (n00b friendly) software available to do that?
I’m on OpenSUSE 11.3.
Thanks.
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:06:01 +0530, matACCADACCA
<matACCADACCA@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> I would like to be able to monitor which programs are allowed to access
> the internet, but a search for programs to do this has turned up
> nothing. Preferably, I would like a notification to come up every time
> an application uses the internet. Is there any (n00b friendly) software
> available to do that?
apparmor comes to mind, which is part of openSUSE 11.3 and can be enabled
via yast. not sure how ‘noob friendly’ it is, though. i tried it once,
using fedora at that time, and found it too disturbing: tons of exceptions
that made manual intervention necessary, which didn’t appear really easy
at that time. that was a couple years ago and i assume apparmor has
improved since, but i’ve never tried it again.
–
phani.
On 11/08/2010 03:46 AM, phanisvara wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:06:01 +0530, matACCADACCA
> <matACCADACCA@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>> I would like to be able to monitor which programs are allowed to access
>> the internet, but a search for programs to do this has turned up
>> nothing. Preferably, I would like a notification to come up every time
>> an application uses the internet. Is there any (n00b friendly) software
>> available to do that?
Do you want to just get a notification, or do you want to block a particular
application? There is no facility such as ZoneAlarm on Windows; however, we
don’t have to worry as much about some external source adding a Trojan to the
system.
If you want to block a particular application, would changing its privileges work?