Could you care to shed some light on the practical pros & cons of Finjan Vital, MVPS Host File, hp Hosts, Open DNS etc as seen in your sig….don’t they bloat IE, slow down browsing or get connectivity problems……are they like a CC for FF, since you seem to be an authority on them?
Are they really needed…how are they helpful…or just a peace of mind?
My computer geek patient’s reply to these questions:
[size=10pt]“depends on how paranoid you are and what you’re doing online. OpenDNS’s DNS service is pretty good, but I use Google’s DNS now. Their web filtering is about the same as the others”[/size]
HostMan can manage hosts lists automatically (like MVPS and hp).
Finjan, well, it was good in old times… not sure it does not slow down browsing too much.
I do not use Firefox so I can on comment on CC for FF.
Finjan doesn’t slow down my browsing but somtimes its slow providing an indicator in Google searches.
I use HostsServer that is included with HostsMan as a browser speedup proxy that also logs the effectivenes of the HOSTS file if Enable log and Log referrer are selected in Preferences.