HostsMan 3.0.0.25 beta 1

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HostsMan 3.0.0.25 beta 1 - http://hostsman.abelhadigital.com

Description:
HostsMan is a freeware application that lets you manage your Hosts file with ease.

Features:

  • online update and auto-update of hosts file;
  • enable/disable usage of hosts file;
  • open Hosts file with one click;
  • merge two hosts files;
  • built-in hosts editor;
  • scan hosts for errors, duplicates and possible hijacks;
  • find how many host names;
  • easily install newly downloaded hosts file;
  • create encrypted backups of your hosts file;
  • resolve host names;
  • keep log of latest blocked sites;
  • exclusion list;
  • etc.

New on this version:

  • added: Auto-Updates;
  • added: editable update list;
  • added: option to mark updates as not installed;
  • added: support for proxy basic authentication;
  • added: option to restore original Windows hosts file;
  • added: ‘Additional Information’ window;
  • added: IPv6 support (hosts file);
  • added: comment lines support;
  • added: fix hijack of hosts file (‘databasepath’ registry value);
  • added: support for regular expressions to the Exclusion List;
  • changed: 90% of the code rewritten;
  • changed: memory manager replaced;
  • changed: hosts lock removed;
  • changed: interface updated;
  • changed: exclusion list improved;
  • changed: editor improved (rewritten from scratch);
  • changed: ‘Block Adverts’ removed from update list;
  • changed: HostsServer replaces built-in HTTP Server;
  • fixed: some encrypted backups are not created correctly;
  • fixed: several bugs;
  • etc.

Note: The next beta versions will be again only for Beta Testers.

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Hello VaMPiRiC_CRoW,

But what to do with a good host file against the following example, a good site for instance is www.fravia.com (if someone mistypes org for com, you will get the scam as given below:

Welcome to fravia Homepage: Find it all on fravia.org Click here for Welcome to fravia Homepage: Find it all on fravia.org. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There is an awful lot of this going on, cheap lurers take you to bogus or even dangerous search places, and here GeoTrust and MacAfee do not protect you, neither does Netcraft. How can you protect against this. Mystyping is putting your head on the block…

Consider also this info: http://clsc.net/research/google-302-page-hijack.htm

polonus

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You are right on this point, but would be very difficult to avoid all kind of problems…

For a lot of users this kind of protection is very useful since they didn’t know what is good or not, and this could help them…