That was something else, because of a questionable posting in the the “exclusive” forum sector I wanted to survey where that came from, and now have a fair clue, but look what I wanted to post there, that is completely legal, changed the link there, no offense meant, take that link off will you?
I tried one of those (Almost 200 New Malicious Domains Added) listed at random ‘antivirus-powerful-scannerv2’ and firefox’s safe browsing check picked it up, so I would imaging many of those are covered by that too.
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If Wladimir Palant allows it inside AdBlock or ABP it must be a reliable source, according to their about this site information,
I always belive that keeping the hosts file updated manually (for a single computer of course) is easier.
I used to download a hosts file from some guy named mike. I used to google search, “Mike’s hosts file” and his site would come up. It was decent. Lot’s of bad domains were blocked, and I never had trouble with opening anything that I needed.
Of course, spybot (being useless for anything else) helped with it’s, “immunizations” by adding plenty of bad sites into the hosts file, and would keep it up to date. That’s usually what I use today, but nothing beats loading your own customized or favorite list of bad sites into your hosts file manually.
If you have a list that you want to block, browse to: %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc then open the “hosts” file with notepad. Paste or type your entries manually. If there is one that is giving you a problem, rem it out or delete it. Add others that you want added. Simple enough…
Spybot S&D’s HOSTS file adds many dead entries to the HOSTS file and I have not used it for a long time and infact I don’t use Spybot S&D anymore as it has not kept up with the times.
Unless you want to maintain your own HOSTS file and want up to the minute updates then check for old entries that are not valid as the malware sites are usually knocked off the net quite quickly thanks to the malware fighters.