You can run Opera through its own VPN; does that reassure you (and ChrisT and
Ken)?
Chris
> On 28 Mar 2017, at 15:29, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have been trying to block these intrusions by Google , Amazon, and
> others for months, with very little success. None of the add-ons or
> extensions for Firefox have had any effect. I resorted to using Proxomitron,
> hosts, and other methods, but the number of attemped intrusions escalated.
> This morning four new intusion sources appeared.
>
> I'm monitoring this activity by way of TCPView, which gives me a means
> for manually breaking the numerous adverse connections. You would not
> believe the number of connections that are taking place without your
> knowledge, and the adverse connections bring dialup connectivity to a crawl,
> as though it wasn't slow enough to begin with.
>
> This morning I came across two applications that sounded promsing:
> BeeThink and PeerGuardian. BeeThink costs $US29.95 after a trial period, and
> PeerGuardian is free. Free is a good price, so I downloaded and installed
> it. It has been very busy, and there has not been a single adverse
> connection. At least, not yet, but I'm used to disconnecting adverse
> connections continuously throughout the day.
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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