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Use Spyware Blaster to Protect Portable Firefox

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I’m sure (by now) you are aware of the Portable Firefox application that bundles a complete Mozilla Firefox 3.x version as a ready-to-use browser setup. All you have to do is download the relevant file (available in Firefox 3.0.1x and Firefox 3.6 Beta builds) from PortableApps.com to your systems. Click to run the installer. And save the files to a location on either your hard disk drive. Or on a portable (USB pen) drive. Whatever floats your boat better.

Spyware Blaster (for those who haven’t been paying attention) is a powerful anti-spyware protection application. The free for personal user version should work for 99% of all users. Unlike other security tools, Spyware Blaster protects you before the fact. Blocking cookies, dialers, ActiveX controls and known spyware web sites from your browsers. The existing 4.2 build protects Windows, Internet Explorer and Firefox. As the Opera web browser doesn’t use DOM it’s quite secured against most malware.

The problem with Spyware Blaster is it can’t detect Portable Firefox since the latter isn’t installed; mere extracted. So we need to implement a workaround. Read this Wilder Security thread for the details.

3 Comments

  1. there is also the malwarebytes tool but spyware blaster looks good too

  2. start firefox.usb
    look in Documents and Settings
    YourLoginNameApplication Data
    MozillaFirefox
    right click, new, text doc,
    name it profiles.ini , paste this in to it

    [General]
    StartWithLastProfile=1

    [Profile0]
    Name=Default
    IsRelative=0
    Path=C:Program FilesFirefox2Dataprofile
    Default=1

    run spyware blaster, apply all protection, close both programs

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