(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

A security question - how to stop a secondary browser's access to & from internet (will still have wireless connection).
I have a collection of flash games & as flash will be discontinued from Dec 2020, I wanted to run an old browser off-net, to play the games.
I set a manual proxy of 127.0.0.9:80 in the secondary browser & that stops me surfing from it. Will it likely stop all intrusion?

Mostly commenting to follow the thread..

But, you can play flash games using flash player, outside of a browser.

And, I don't know how to do it, but in the past I have played flash games that are embedded into excel spreadsheets. Might be an option to get your games working completely outside of a browser.

Flash player projector, from adobe is a stand-alone flash player. NOTE: some flash files call websites - program warns you.
64bit version (32.0.0.387) is here: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/f ... _64.tar.gz

Last 32bit projector I found (11.2) is here: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/f ... rchive.zip
(is in the the _sa_ package when unzipped).
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Here's a thought I HAVE NOT tried >> BlueMaxima's Flashpoint!

I know master builders will jump on me for this post. But we need to learn Linux.

There is the Linux way! Add rules to iptables. I am posting just to let you know it is possible. See example how to block Firefox, and anything you add to group no-internet:

how to control internet access for each program

Edit:
Puppians, before you try this or any system change. Make a backup of your PuppySave. Then Google and learn how to make a backup of your iptables. Then learn how you add and delete individual iptables. At that point you are ready to try this method.

enrique wrote:I know master builders will jump on me for this post. But we need to learn Linux.

There is the Linux way! Add rules to iptables. I am posting just to let you know it is possible. See example how to block Firefox, and anything you add to group no-internet:

how to control internet access for each program

Edit:
Puppians, before you try this or any system change. Make a backup of your PuppySave. Then Google and learn how to make a backup of your iptables. Then learn how you add and delete individual iptables. At that point you are ready to try this method.

Here's another interesting Linux solution. As I understand it, it works with Eztables (or is just named that, not sure)

https://firewalld.org/

I use it on my Linux Lite machine and it's as simple as breathing.

Wouldn't it be great if such a thing would be incorporated in Puppy?