Firekeeper the Intrusion Detection System for Firefox

I just found about this Firefox extension today and this extension could be useful especially to those who’s a little bit paranoid about their computer security. And here’s the Firekeeper description taken from the project page :

Firekeeper is an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Firefox. It is able to detect, block and warn the user about malicious sites. Firekeeper uses flexible rules similar to Snort ones to describe browser based attack attempts. Rules can also be used to effectively filter different kinds of unwanted content

Other features of Firekeeper :

• Ability to scan incoming Firefox traffic – HTTP(S) response headers, body and URL and to cancel processing of suspicious responses
• HTTPS and compressed responses are scanned after decryption/decompression
• Very fast pattern matching algorithm (taken directly from Snort)
• Interactive alerts that give an ability to choose a response to detected attack attempt
• Ability to use any number of files with rules and to automatically load files from remote locations

As a note, the currently available Firekeeper release is still in Alpha stage, which main purpose is to get feedback from users about Firekeeper’s functionality and to test if Firekeeper works well on various different systems. Currently Firekeeper support Linux based OS and Windows based OS

Related Link : Firekeeper Project Page – Firekeeper Weblog