SCROOM Netscape Navigator Plug-In

This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. It does not describe an actual complete program. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project any way you please.

Have you ever been to a website that treated you badly. They may have:

Created 20 frames on your screen. As you killed each one, several others sprang up Hydra-like to take its place.
The site promised great wonders but did not deliver.
The site contained some nasty Trojan that crashed your machine.

You vow never to visit that site again, but you keep finding yourself there because of hidden or misleading links in other sites to it.

SCROOM comes to the rescue. You give it a list of sites, both by name and by IP dotted quad that you never want to visit again. Whenever you accidentally click to go there, or a site tries to send you there, the request is blocked. The mechanism is very similar to how a Net Nanny would protect children from adult sites, but it has a quite different purpose. I’m told a commercial product called NetGranny has some logic like this in it. It might serve as a model.

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