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AdBlock = inferior to custom hosts files
Hosts do more w/ less (a single file) @ a faster level of privelege (ring 0/rpl0/kernelmode) vs browser addons (that slow up already slower ring 3/rpl 3/usermode browsers) acting as a filter for the IP stack (written in C & starts w/ the OS + 1st request to the internet it is the 1st resolver queried as well, with over 45++ yrs.of optimization into it):
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Especially once cached in RAM (I do it w/ large hosts via the kernelmode/ring 0/rpl 0 diskcache subsystem or w\ small ones via the native but faulty w\ larger hosts files dns clientside cache service (ring 3/rpl 3/usermode slower)).
(Specific details of its operation/what it does are in the link above + enumerated numerous benefits hosts files provide end users)
* Hosts do FAR more than AdBlock ("souled-out" to GOOGLE, & crippled by default) or Ghostery (Advertiser owned) do - especially considering they're "Foxes guarding the henhouse".
Hosts gain reliability vs. downed DNS servers & protect you vs redirected DNS servers as well + secure you vs. known malicious hosts-domains http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ far less added "moving parts" room for breakdown, complexity, "Less is more".
APK
P.S.=> Hosts files give users benefits in added speed (blocking adbanners & hardcoding fav sites in them - faster than remote DNS lookups), security (vs. known malicious hosts-domains that serve up malicious content + block spam/phish links), reliability (vs. downed DNS servers or vs. Kaminsky vulnerable DNS servers, 99% are STILL unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + vulnerable vs. FastFlux + Dynamic DNS botnets), & anonymity to an extent (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's)...
... apk
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Easiest way to build custom hosts files... apk
"you can be even more effective and block it via hosts file" - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:48AM (#44552747)
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
Hosts files (1 file @ a faster level of privelege (ring 0/rpl0/kernelmode) do more than browser addons (that slow up already slower ring 3/rpl 3/usermode browsers) as a filter for the IP stack itself (written in C & starts with the OS + 1st request to the net as it's 1st resolver queried with 45++ yrs.of optimization into it) & cached into RAM (as I do it using the kernelmode/ring 0/rpl 0 diskcaching subsystem, or smaller ones using the native but faulty with larger hosts files dns clientside cache service (ring 3/rpl 3/usermode slower though too)).
Hosts do FAR more vs AdBlock ("souled-out" to GOOGLE, & crippled by default) or Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - they're "Foxes guarding the henhouse".
Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS servers + secure you vs. known malicious hosts-domains online http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" room for breakdown, & complexity. "Less is more".
Custom hosts files give users benefits in added speed (blocking ads & hardcoding favorite sites into them - faster than remote DNS lookups), security (vs. known malicious sites/serves/hosts-domains that serve up malware or are malscript bearing - blocking spam/phish malicious links also), reliability (vs. downed DNS servers or vs. Kaminsky bug vulnerable DNS servers, 99% = STILL unpatched vs. it & worst of all @ the ISP level + vulnerable as hell vs. FastFlux + Dynamic DNS using botnets), & even anonymity to an extent (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
APK
P.S.=> Enjoy: It's 100% free, & works... apk
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"Light up the darkness"... apk
"Someone asked him, 'why'. He said: 'The people who're trying to make this world WORSE, are not taking a day off - how can I?' Light up the darkness..." - Dr. Robert Neville from "I AM LEGEND" quoting Bob Marley
That "all said & aside": IF I'm able to help the situation? I do. Do you? NO.
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"My god" - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @11:17AM (#44553111)
Quote Dr. Robert Neville again (my theme) keeping w/ the fact there're idiots making malwares online:
"God didn't do this Anna - We DID..." - Dr. Robert Neville from "I AM LEGEND"
Been modded up 4 this post ~ 50x by the way.
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Above all: VALIDLY disprove my points on hosts' benefits to end-users of them in better added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent vs. online threats enumerated here:
* It's ALL I've ever asked of "naysayer trolls"/detractors!
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However - No troll here or elsewhere, ever has validly.. Not a 1 & I keep getting stronger for it too (bonus).
(Especially since its output produces 1 file that's tightly integrated as part of the IP stack itself & yet does MORE by far, vs. competing "souled-out" solutions (Ghostery/AdBlock)).
APK
P.S.=> Trolls don't *try* anymore - "Gee, wonder why?" (not - I've floored the "best & brightest" of you 10 below plantlife IQ trolls too many times, you've given up!). I take heart in that fact, & it makes me laugh @ you.
Quoting Dr. Robert Neville again from "I AM LEGEND" regarding the troll, & others like him:
"Behavioral note: An infected male (the troll I am replying to) exposed himself to sunlight today: Now, it's possible decreased brain function (definitely) or growing scarcity of food is causing them to ignore their basic survival instincts. Social De-Evolution is complete: Typical human behavior is now entirely absent..."
... apk
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"It's working! Neville - It's working..."
I avoid ads totally (especially malscripted ones) via hosts files:
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Yes, even on an android smartphone
(Via ADB/Android Debugging Bridge & its PULL command, but use smaller optimized hosts there folks - not much room, shitty caching (sorry google, it's true)).
As long as attacks = host-domain name based (most are, like 99%, especially via "immortal" fastflux + dynDNS malware the majority/prevalent type out there vs. IP addressed ones).
Hosts files do more with less in a single file & at a faster privelege level (ring 0/rpl0/kernelmode) than redundant crippled by default browser addons (that slow up already slower ring 3/rpl 3/usermode browsers & are advertiser owned (Ghostery/Adblock "foxes guarding your henhouse")).
"Less is more" = GOOD engineering via less complexity, room for breakdown, & less "moving parts"/variables in the equation.
"The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
Since "They're not gonna stop..." - Dr. Robert Neville "I AM LEGEND" @ that film's near termination...
APK
P.S.=> Hosts work by acting as a filter for the IP stack itself (written in C language & starts with the OS + 1st request to the internet it is the 1st resolver queried as well, with over 45++ yrs.of optimization refinement put into it).
Hosts also aid reliability vs. downed DNS & protect vs redirected DNS servers also securing you vs. known bad hosts-domains online http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 & . Hosts files give users of them good benefits in added speed, security, reliability & even added anonymity (to an extent), all enumerated in the link to my program above, in detail...apk
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3 questions vs. your "take your meds"?
NO effort here whatsoever, to EASILY put you "in your place", with facts (& the findings of key noted others in the art & science of computing also who actually saw what I wrote, decades ago, & agreed + used it)
LMAO - I even NOW have you agreeing WITH my points in favor of hosts files listed here:
Question #1: What EXACTLY is "complex ritual" from your post telling me to "take my meds" here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4072127&cid=44543183
(You're bringing this on YOURSELF... remember - YOU started it!)
Question #2: Are you a psychological professional that is licensed in the psychiatric sciences?
NO, you are not.
Question #3: Have you also:
1.) Performed an examination of my "alleged mental condition" in a professional psychiatric environs, according to YOU, "Dr. Quack - the 'SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk' of
2.) Are you licensed to do such accusations/prognosis??
If NOT to #2 (&you're not), that's libel buddy, especially combined with #1 above... watch yourself.
I can "play that game too": You sound like YOU have "delusions of grandeur" @ being a psychiatric PRO on YOUR part, actually (lol).
(You really ought to stop now, since I doubt you'll answer these questions... & IF you do? You'll do yourself in, for me... simple!)
APK
P.S.=> Yes, just what I thought (as to anything noteworthy from you in the eyes of others in publication, trade shows, commercial software to your name/credit from an MS partner, books, magazines, newspapers, & more? I have, many times, while you were in DIAPERS I'd wager... want a partial list? Ask!)... you're an "armchair quarterback", & a troll that makes libelous "prognosis" (or you're projecting your own issues, take your pick) when defeated by YOUR own inadequacy technically, & yes, in debate... apk
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3 days later, troll? Please... lol! apk
"Best you got" = WEAK illogical off-topic ad hominem attacks, nothing more.
Same as your crap here last time http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3045075&cid=40972977
(Proof's in black & white, twice...)
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I've also SEEN you're technically challenged in this art & science, ala your post on DOS being unable to multitask:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3801627&cid=43861407
Clue: DO YOU KNOW WHAT A "TSR" IS (terminate & stay resident program)?
New NEWS/NewsFlash: It's EXACTLY what proves you wrong there! Period.
I've written enough of them "back in the day" to KNOW that, hands-on... have you? No, obviously.
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See? I can put a torch to what you spew easily. Funny YOU can't do the same to me.
Now, when I challenge you to disprove my points on hosts files stated here:
You "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" or spew illogical trolling off topic b.s.!
(Yes - Your reply is all you have AS WELL AS THE ONE FROM THE PAST I posted (mere effete off-topic illogical trolling)).
Facts, are facts & truths, are truths. You provided them is all.
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You also proved, on DOS above, that you CANNOT *THINK* for yourself & merely operate on myths others spread around the internet (which is WHY you're nothing more than an academia techie outta Illinois/St. Louis in computing).
Best part here is?
Yes - You CONCEDE gains from what my application has as its final output, a custom hosts file.
Try this crap again? I'll toss it back in your trolling face.
APK
P.S.=> "Get thee behind me, Satan" - that's about all I have to say to trolls such as yourself (you've been here for around 1 yr. to the DAY almost, and have YET to disprove my points on hosts files I state - heck, you can't even challenge 1: Makes sense, looking @ your level of "technical proficiency" in the art & science of computing)...
... apk
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Custom Hosts files get you around DNSBL's
By bypassing dns altogether since hosts = 1st thing IP stack references for host-domain/subdomain resolutions by default:
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Microsoft TCP/IP Host Name Resolution Order:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172218
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The client checks to see if the name queried is its own.
The client then searches a local Hosts file, a list of IP address and names stored on the local computer.
A sample hosts file, Hosts.sam, is installed with the TCP/IP protocol showing the proper format.
Domain Name System (DNS) servers are queried.
If the name is still not resolved, NetBIOS name resolution sequence is used as a backup. This order can be changed by configuring the NetBIOS node type of the client."
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(I don't agree with stuff like Torrents or other piracy online though...)
APK
P.S.=> Creating such a custom hosts file? Easy (per "yours truly"):
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Short synopsis/summary - Custom hosts files give users of them great benefits in added better:
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1.) Speed (blocking adbanners & hardcoding your favorite sites into them - faster than remote DNS lookups)
2.) "Layered-Security/"Defense-in-Depth" (vs. known malicious sites/serves/hosts-domains that serve up malware or are malscript bearing - blocking spam/phish malicious links also, & host-domain names are used more BY FAR vs. IP addresses (like 99%:1% ratios due to fastflux & dynDNS using botnets))
3.) Reliability (vs. Kaminsky bug vulnerable DNS servers, 99% of which are STILL unpatched vs. it & worst of all @ the ISP level + vulnerable as hell vs. FastFlux + Dynamic DNS using botnets (or even DOWNED DNS servers too))
4.) "Anonymity" to an extent (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's you may not like too - which is the case here since DNS is employed to do the blocking).
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Enjoy!
... apk
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Do you mean ... apk
Troll illogical off topic failing ad hominem attacks that nigh constantly follow my hosts posts try to "put down" what I state in favor of hosts files (yet never disproving points I made validly)
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Statements I make regarding their benefits inr added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity (to a lesser extent here vs. dns request logs + getting around DNSBL's you may not like)?
APK
P.S.=> Anyone's FREE to attempt to disprove my points on custom hosts files validly (nobody ever does, especially said trolls) stated here @ my program's hosting site, enumerated there:
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Short synopsis:
Custom hosts files give users of them great benefits in added speed (blocking adbanners & hardcoding your favorite sites into them - faster than remote DNS lookups), added security (vs. known malicious sites/serves/hosts-domains that serve up malware or are malscript bearing - blocking spam/phish malicious links also), added reliability (vs. Kaminsky bug vulnerable DNS servers, 99% of which are STILL unpatched vs. it & worst of all @ the ISP level + vulnerable as hell vs. FastFlux + Dynamic DNS using botnets), & even added "anonymity" to an extent (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's you may not like too)...
... apk
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Anyone wonder WHY I built this then?
I avoid ads totally (especially malscripted ones) via hosts files - how do I gather, sort, deduplicate, normalize, & filter them? Easy:
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Using that app by "yours truly"? So can you!
Hosts files do more with less (a single file) & at a faster level of privelege (ring 0/rpl0/kernelmode) than browser addons (that slow up already slower ring 3/rpl 3/usermode browsers) by acting as a filter for the IP stack itself (written in C language & starts with the OS + 1st request to the internet it is the 1st resolver queried as well, with over 45++ yrs.of optimization refinement put into it).
* It also does FAR more than AdBlock ("souled-out" to GOOGLE, & crippled by default) or Ghostery (Advertiser owned) do, by FAR - especially considering they're "Foxes guarding the henhouse" now.
Hosts also gain you reliability vs. downed DNS servers & protect you vs redirected DNS servers as well as securing you vs. known malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains online http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 and with far less added "moving parts" room for breakdown, less complexity, and "less is more".
APK
P.S.=> Custom hosts files give users of them great benefits in added speed (blocking adbanners & hardcoding your favorite sites into them - faster than remote DNS lookups), added security (vs. known malicious sites/serves/hosts-domains that serve up malware or are malscript bearing - blocking spam/phish malicious links also), added reliability (vs. Kaminsky bug vulnerable DNS servers, 99% of which are STILL unpatched vs. it & worst of all @ the ISP level + vulnerable as hell vs. FastFlux + Dynamic DNS using botnets), & even added anonymity to an extent (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's you may not like too)...
... apk
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They're MORONS then (siding with NSA here)... apk
Siding with General Alexander on this one (I personally object to their scanning US citizens via xKeyScore + prism though, bigtime)! Why? Well, I see, & have seen, daily for the past 15++ yrs. now just how much malware or malscripted sites that infest folks occurs is how/why. I get a range of roughly 200-5000 a day on those (& other 300-400 a day on bogus things advertisers put into page you don't see like trackers too). I know what I'm about here, via my application for building custom hosts files (that adds more security, speed, reliability, & also anonymity to an extent):
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
Most folks wouldn't believe how much goes on from "cracker/malware makers" daily - it's unreal! They must be profiting by it, and then you take what security sites like ThreatPost, Dancho Danchev, sophos & others puts out too ontop of it which we only see a fraction of here in news articles? You get the picture, pretty fast, as to "what's-what" on that account.
APK
P.S.=> This happening almost makes you *think* the idiots want to leave 'backdoors' in their systems - a "good excuse" imo, for one of their own to 'hack in' from either the outside or even inside internally to say "Oh, it was hacker/crackers' that did it". Seriously! Don't they realize they set customers @ risk & when you do that, class-action lawsuits can harm a companies' profitabilty/bottom-line even with insurances vs. it which by them leaving the side windows open & unlocked for lack of a better analogy, but they are triple locking the front door only to their business set themselvse wide open to negligence suits + other damages).
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On the facebook stuff
You're right - & I work around that easily, so can you, as follows (since it's not visible usually like for instance, adbanners are - sneaky, Sneaky, SNEAKY lol!)!
Start by surfing around as normal to sites you like/go to usually (or not), & using a tool called "network latency view" http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_latency_view.html
(Which is really just for doing this but it works for this purpose also)
That program shows me those trackers that AREN'T immediately apparent operating 'behind the scenes'.
Then, I just pop them into my custom hosts file like so:
E.G. -> 0.0.0.0 edge-star-shv-03-ash5.facebook.com
And voila: They're NOT going to connect to squat on my system locally, or work @ all, period.
APK
P.S.=> It works (it's pretty underhanded shit imo too, & pissed me off some when I discovered it a few years back) & of course? So does this by "your truly" (yes, shameless plug):
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
Does a hell of a LOT more for you in added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to a degree -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4034107&cid=44439245 than AdBlock ("souled-out" to GOOGLE, doesn't block all ads anymore by default) &/or Ghostery (owned by advertisers & thus imo is a "fox guarding the henhouse") do.
NoScript rocks for FF users - but, I use Opera 12.16 64-bit here & disable cookies/plugins/javascript/frames-iframes BY DEFAULT globally for all sites - when I need any of those, I do an "exception" site, allowing for them (sometimes you have to for full function, usually ecommerce related or db access type stuff as you probably know).
"Always more than 1 way to skin a cat"
... apk
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Custom hosts files do a BETTER job
Since they do more with less (a single file) & at a faster level of privelege (ring 0/rpl0/kernelmode) than browser addons (that slow up already slower ring 3/rpl 3/usermode browsers) by acting as a filter for the IP stack itself (written in C language & starts with the OS + 1st request to the internet, with over 45++ yrs.of optimization refinement put into it) - how do I gather, sort, deduplicate, normalize, & filter them? Easy:
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Using that app by "yours truly"? So can you!
(More specific details of its operation & what it does for you are in that link (which if you're like me, that site *may* just "interest you", since it features & hosts 64-bit wares galore since that's the "wave of the future" & not just for Windows users either mind you...)).
* It also does FAR more than AdBlock ("souled-out" to GOOGLE, & crippled by default) or Ghostery (Advertiser owned) do, by FAR - especially considering they're "Foxes guarding the henhouse" now.
APK
P.S.=> Custom hosts files give users of them great benefits in added speed (blocking adbanners & hardcoding your favorite sites into them - faster than remote DNS lookups), added security (vs. known malicious sites/serves/hosts-domains that serve up malware or are malscript bearing), added reliability (vs. Kaminsky bug vulnerable DNS servers, 99% of which are STILL unpatched vs. it & worst of all @ the ISP level), & even added anonymity to an extent (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's you may not like too)...
... apk
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Additionally for posterities' sake (static lib)
Why I use Delphi's VCL (statically compiled) http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3958509&cid=44243717 per your Dr. Dobbs journal article - makes for decent "single moving part self-contained" executables, like this one -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 from "yours truly".
AND, again - per my last post http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4020769&cid=44402835
I.E.-> On what to do to AVOID "DLL HELL", IF you use "extra moving parts" DLL's!
(imo, something to be avoided but, easily gotten around using static libs + doing placement as I noted, "seconding your article's motion" in the same stroke)
APK
P.S.=> Experience, even BAD experience (& yes I've had them) is like a punch in the head - you either learn by it, and do better, or keep getting them!
... apk
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Std. "APK Challenge" to trolls then... apk
"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" Forrest Gump troll -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44315701 - disprove it validly with facts.
Since "The Premise, is quite simple: Take something designed by nature, & reprogram it to make it work for the body, rather than against it" - Dr. Alice Krippen, 'I AM LEGEND'...
And, it certainly does in this case AND many others -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
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(Validly disprove the points I enumerate in the 2nd link, as well as my points in the 1st link above that are specific to THIS article here about the value of custom hosts files for added speed, security, reliability - especially vs. DNS faults in not being patched on 99% of them worldwide @ the ISP level worst of all vs. the Kaminsky bug redirection flaw + FastFlux & DynDNS tech utilizing botnets, and lastly even for added anonymity to an extent (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's you may not like)).
Go for it - you can't do it, hence your "Run, Forrest - RUN!!!" b.s. & ac trolling...Fact (based on 100's of trolls like yourself using the same reprehensible tactics as yourself in the end out of "wounded pride" no doubt): Nobody can! Why? My theme of my LIFE "Fight the GOOD fight, every moment" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3zhgXDDSs
APK
P.S.=> It makes me feel like Good Will Hunting when he says "Look - maybe I don't want to sit around the rest of my life explaining shit to people... Do you know how EASY this is for me? Do you have any fucking idea how easy this is for me?? This is a fucking JOKE. & I'm sorry you can't do this: I really am because I wouldn't have to sit here and watch you fumble around & FUCK IT UP!" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqoSxVf4qTY to the great mathematician he humbles with ease, despite his not having the same education.
... apk
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NT 3.51 = Graphics subsystem in usermode
Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode (vs. Ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode). Cutler almost quit MS when he got wind they were going to move it to kernelmode (introducing potential instabilities) - but between DirectX (gaming/multimedia) & the stable templates provided by the MS DDK, it kept it stable enough (oem vidcard maker drivers & what they add beyond that could be problematic only).
Fork? That's *NIX stuff man... I know of NO Win16/32/64 API call of that name. I use ShellExecute or CreateProcess though in code. Why do forks though, when you can do lighter-weight threads?
APK
P.S.=> Only thing I've found "wrong" in Windows 7's that the hosts file after 12/09/2008 was patched badly on that account, no longer allowing 0 as a valid "blocking IP address" (whereas any NT-based OS pre-VISTA still can though, oddly) - MS' own VP of the "Windows Client Performance Division" who posts here (Richard Russell/Foredecker) even conceded that to me here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1467692&cid=30384918 since it makes for a smaller file, which loads faster off disk AND parses faster line-by-line internally during the File Open/Read-Write/Close I-O cycle with text files like hosts. Reported to MS directly too, never was fixed. Makes a 30% difference in size for me with a custom hosts file I've built since 1997 (due to fastflux + dynDNS botnets that recycle/reuse their malicious hosts like mad "reincarnating" them as needed since they paid for them no doubt) @ 2,075,107++ entries & growing currently, via this 32/64-bit app I built to import/sort/normalize & deduplicate them for better online speed, security, reliability, + even added anonymity to a degree -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
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This helps (by "yours truly")... apk
APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
* It does so, in terms of added speed, by blocking out adbanners (both normal & maliciously scripted, bonus on security on the latter), & letting you "hardcode" speedup your favorite sites!
(Where, if you're like me, you spend a good 95++% of your time online odds are, people being 'creatures of habit' & what-not)
Also - She runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernemode, fastest software possible, with "less moving parts complexity" (vs. browser addons noted below, layered in over slower ring 3/rpl 3/usermode webbrowsers, slowing them down even more))as a filter for the TCP/IP stack, & cached (as I do it, saving cpu cycles, ram, & other forms of I/O vs. the faulty with larger hosts files local dns clientside cache service in Windows which I turn off) via the kernelmode diskcaching subsystem.
The rest is added security (blocking KNOWN malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains serving up exploits or malware), added reliability http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 , & added anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs + DNSBL).
Best part = She's completely EASILY end-user controlled vs. competing "solutions" & she's NOT "souled-out" like AdBlock (google) &/or Ghostery (advertiser owned, foxes guarding the henhouse).
APK
P.S.=> Why? My "Theme of the day" (heck, of my life) from this excellent tune "Fight the GOOD Fight, every moment..." -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3zhgXDDSs
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My "main papers"? Already "tagged"
#1 - My passport has an RFID identifier & it IS my main ID, internationally. So, in essence, I am already a chipped & tagged RFID tracked animal already. #2 - I've had happen what you speak of (& won a large monetary award for it as far back as 1991), minus the psychiatric stuff you noted though. So - yes, the "law" does DO what you say it does, almost to a letter (only thing is, within 24 hrs. you can start doing the same to them with a good motivated attorney) but when they're wrong? They're wrong, and you can take them to not just courts, but a jury trial as I did, and you will win. The worst thing you can do with police, is resist (even though they beat the hell out of you, and they did with me with their night-sticks, leaving me with a scar over my eye to this very day in fact but worse, an innate fear of them doing it again to this very day though). In any event? I took the winnings & educated myself. It allowed me to start a pretty good 2++ decades long Comp. Sci. based career which was the stepping stone into doing what I am currently into (which took far more coin to get into than that did, which was the 'stepping stone' for it really but I did and still do, enjoy computer programming -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 )- so, it all works out in the end IF you're lucky & work hard (which isn't that bad if you like what you're doing & that IS the "name of the game" imo as far as livelyhood, since it makes all the difference).
APK
P.S.=> Where I live, unfortunately, has degraded into such a warzone - case in point/example: I took a walk yesterday, heard a "pop" like a lightbulb being smashed. Was a shooting, not even 1.5 blocks from my home (where thank goodness I am up on the highest point in my city & the violent lunatics below don't come up on (gravity protects I guess along with luck)). It was the 2nd one in the SAME LOCATION in a week... apk
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Days later, you ridiculous doltish troll?
Give us a break: Disprove what the program does here http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
* I love it - since I know you simply can't... lol!
APK
P.S.=> You're a ridiculous troll, & but also a total coward as well... no balls: You came in here days later, downmodding unjustly, & trolling - but you just CAN'T DISPROVE WHAT THE RESULTS OF MY PROGRAM ARE stated in that link above - lmao, every single time, that's all a WORM like you, has... hilarious - I am laughing @ you, as always!
... apk
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Exceptions to EVERY rule... apk
I was a lettering NCAA 1st string athlete for a national champ in Lacrosse as a freshmen http://lemoynedolphins.com/sports/mlax/history/1985.HTM (Alex Kowalski - got injured though) & yet? I am a "total geek" too -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
*
(Classifying people doesn't always "work out" man - there are always 'outliers'...)
APK
P.S.=> Real "oddballs" (like me, lol) who even were lettermen http://lemoynedolphins.com/sports/mlax/history/mlaxletterwinners (1985 Letter "K") in COLLEGIATE sports & yes, "starters/1st string"
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Won't stay ahead of mine... apk
My app for blocking dorks like them (& I am FULLY aware of them bigtime, 1st set of "online crooks" I was aware of that used "fastflux" & dynamic dns botnet tech in fact from as far back as 2007 iirc) is already UNICODE aware & has all the new gTLD's incorporated into it @ this point -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
*
(Just for "the future", looking ahead to what you speak of as an inevitability... planning ahead).
APK
P.S.=> Nothing to be tracked yet though - I've only gotten 1 entry over time that was UNICODE & a known malware spewing site (from Norton SafeWeb) - my 12 sources for data don't currently track & list UNICODE gTLD's yet either, but that's inevitable with this new set being introduced by ICANN imo...
... apk
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I Do Not Use DNS (for my fav sites)
I get to them faster (local off TRUE SSD DDR2 Gigabyte IRAM 4gb PCIExpress ramdisk card speed of access/seek sub ms into low ns), & get past DNS failures, like this one, via:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
My top 20 sites favorites where I spend 95%++ or better of my time are in mine @ the topmost 20 entries - this equals or exceeds DNS indexing up to ~2-3 million++ record entries... I also get local seek/read & faster once cached into memory (either by local dns caching client services or with large hosts files, the local kernelmode diskcaching subsystem - keeps it ALL in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode with the TCP/IP stack!). I checked my browser histories, firewall logs (software & router), etc., to determine them (knew them anyhow, I am ME, right? Right!).
Sub ~4% of the time? I use DNS, but specialized secured filtered ones vs. malware/spam/phishing etc. like OpenDNS, Comodo DNS, ScrubIT DNS, & others like them. Rare. Part of why I use news aggregator sites. They help not having to hop all over the place.
* Not only does it do more than AdBlock ('souled-out' 2 Google) & Ghostery (advertiser owned - to me, that's a fox guarding a henhouse) in speeding you up, AND blocking ads (plus known maliciously coded sites or malware serving servers etc.), but it makes you more RELIABLE, this way in cases like this also.
APK
P.S.=> Other major problems in DNS are that it's 99% unpatched out there vs. the Kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw, worst of all @ the ISP level, but also it gets "taken advantage of" in its very nature by FastFlux &/or Dynamic DNS utilizing bots, like mad, recycling-reusing host-domain names of malware spewing sites like mad (hard to kill, can live again/reincarnate - IP addressed malware is easy to kill by comparison, being stationary/static, vs. dynamic)...
... apk
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AdBlock "souled-out"... apk
9 days ago I submit this. Was REJECTED & also REMOVED from submissions -> http://slashdot.org/submission/2783319/adblock-getting-paid-by-google-to-allow-their-ads
(Which indicates suppression of VALID information on
Here's something a LOT better on many fronts: For those of you that run Microsoft Windows 32 or 64 bit? An automated hosts file creation & mgt. program:
* It's NOT "bought-in/souled-out" (misspelling intentional on the latter) like Ghostery (advertiser owned/fox guarding your henhouse) or AdBlock (lobbyist bribed to lesser efficacy by default)... and it does the same job, and FAR more!
The "more" being:
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1.) More security (blocking know spammers/trackers/phishers + maliciously coded sites or redirects, and sites known to serve malware etc.)
2.) Speed (blocking adbanners + hardcoded favorite sites @ the top of it beating DNS indexes up to ~3++ million line entries using 20 of them)
3.) Reliability (vs. redirect poisoned or downed DNS servers - especially considering 99% of the DNS servers, especially @ the ISP level, are unpatched vs. the Kaminsky flaw)
4.) Anonymity to an extent (DNS request logs/DNSBL)).
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* See the entire list of what it does for you, which is a LOT MORE than AdBlock/Ghostery & the like in the link above...
APK
P.S.=> Using those crippled or advertiser owned (fox guarding the henhouse) addons? You're also "layered-in" over slower Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode browsers, slowing them down even more using addons (fact, try it in FireFox putting in a lot of addons, you'll see). My app's resultfile (hosts) operates in Ring 0/RPL 0/Kernelmode (a filter for the TCP/IP stack), written in C which is far faster than those tools are written in slower languages like Perl, Javascript, etc. & operates RIGHT @ OS + IP stack startup (making browser addons, redundant)... apk
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Adblock "souled-out"... apk
9 days ago, I submit this here. Not only REJECTED but REMOVED from submissions -> http://slashdot.org/submission/2783319/adblock-getting-paid-by-google-to-allow-their-ads
(Which indicates suppression of VALID information on
Here's something a LOT better on many fronts: For those of you that run Microsoft Windows 32 or 64 bit? An automated hosts file creation & mgt. program:
* It's NOT "bought-in/souled-out" (misspelling intentional on the latter) like Ghostery (advertiser owned/fox guarding your henhouse) or AdBlock (lobbyist bribed to lesser efficacy by default)... and it does the same job, and FAR more!
The "more" being:
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1.) More security (blocking know spammers/trackers/phishers + maliciously coded sites or redirects, and sites known to serve malware etc.)
2.) Speed (blocking adbanners + hardcoded favorite sites @ the top of it beating DNS indexes up to ~3++ million line entries using 20 of them)
3.) Reliability (vs. redirect poisoned or downed DNS servers - especially considering 99% of the DNS servers, especially @ the ISP level, are unpatched vs. the Kaminsky flaw)
4.) Anonymity to an extent (DNS request logs/DNSBL)).
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* See the entire list of what it does for you, which is a LOT MORE than AdBlock/Ghostery & the like in the link above...
APK
P.S.=> Using those crippled or advertiser owned (fox guarding the henhouse) addons? You're also "layered-in" over slower Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode browsers, slowing them down even more using addons (fact, try it in FireFox putting in a lot of addons, you'll see). My app's resultfile (hosts) operates in Ring 0/RPL 0/Kernelmode (a filter for the TCP/IP stack), written in C which is far faster than those tools are written in slower languages like Perl, Javascript, etc. & operates RIGHT @ OS + IP stack startup (making browser addons, redundant)... apk
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Submitted it here 9 days ago: Result?
IT WASN'T ONLY REJECTED: It was flat out REMOVED from submissions -> http://slashdot.org/submission/2783319/adblock-getting-paid-by-google-to-allow-their-ads
(Makes me laugh as it indicates suppression of VALID information on
Here's something a LOT better on many fronts:
For those of you that run Microsoft Windows 32 or 64 bit? An automated hosts file creation & mgt. program:
* And it's NOT "bought-in/souled-out" (misspelling intentional on the latter) like Ghostery (advertiser owned/fox guarding your henhouse) or AdBlock (lobbyist bribed to lesser efficacy by default)... and it does the same job, and FAR more!
The "more" being:
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1.) More security (blocking know spammers/trackers/phishers + maliciously coded sites or redirects, and sites known to serve malware etc.)
2.) Speed (blocking adbanners + hardcoded favorite sites @ the top of it beating DNS indexes up to ~3++ million line entries using 20 of them)
3.) Reliability (vs. redirect poisoned or downed DNS servers - especially considering 99% of the DNS servers, especially @ the ISP level, are unpatched vs. the Kaminsky flaw)
4.) Anonymity to an extent (DNS request logs/DNSBL)).
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* See the entire list of what it does for you, which is a LOT MORE than AdBlock/Ghostery & the like in the link above...
APK
P.S.=> Using those crippled or advertiser owned (fox guarding the henhouse) addons? You're also "layered-in" over slower Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode browsers, slowing them down even more using addons (fact, try it in FireFox putting in a lot of addons, you'll see) - whereas my app operates in Ring 0/RPL 0/Kernelmode as a filter for the TCP/IP stack, written in C, which is also far faster than those tools are written in slower languages like Perl, Javascript, etc. & operates RIGHT @ OS + IP stack startup (making browser addons, redundant)... apk
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Trusting adblock? Ok:
9 days ago, I submitted this. Wasn't only REJECTED but also REMOVED from submissions -> http://slashdot.org/submission/2783319/adblock-getting-paid-by-google-to-allow-their-ads
(Which indicates suppression of VALID information on
Here's something a LOT better on many fronts: For those of you that run Microsoft Windows 32 or 64 bit? An automated hosts file creation & mgt. program:
* It's NOT "bought-in/souled-out" (misspelling intentional on the latter) like Ghostery (advertiser owned/fox guarding your henhouse) or AdBlock (lobbyist bribed to lesser efficacy by default)... and it does the same job, and FAR more!
The "more" being:
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1.) More security (blocking know spammers/trackers/phishers + maliciously coded sites or redirects, and sites known to serve malware etc.)
2.) Speed (blocking adbanners + hardcoded favorite sites @ the top of it beating DNS indexes up to ~3++ million line entries using 20 of them)
3.) Reliability (vs. redirect poisoned or downed DNS servers - especially considering 99% of the DNS servers, especially @ the ISP level, are unpatched vs. the Kaminsky flaw)
4.) Anonymity to an extent (DNS request logs/DNSBL)).
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* See the entire list of what it does for you, which is a LOT MORE than AdBlock/Ghostery & the like in the link above...
APK
P.S.=> Using those crippled or advertiser owned (fox guarding the henhouse) addons? You're also "layered-in" over slower Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode browsers, slowing them down even more using addons (fact, try it in FireFox putting in a lot of addons, you'll see) - whereas my app operates in Ring 0/RPL 0/Kernelmode as a filter for the TCP/IP stack, written in C, which is also far faster than those tools are written in slower languages like Perl, Javascript, etc. & operates RIGHT @ OS + IP stack startup (making browser addons, redundant)... apk
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This does a BETTER job than AdBlock by far
For those of you that run Microsoft Windows 32 or 64 bit? An automated hosts file creation & mgt. program:
* And it's NOT "bought-in/souled-out" (misspelling intentional on the latter) like Ghostery (advertiser owned/fox guarding your henhouse) or AdBlock (lobbyist bribed to lesser efficacy by default)... and it does the same job, and FAR more!
The "more" being:
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1.) More security (blocking know spammers/trackers/phishers + maliciously coded sites or redirects, and sites known to serve malware etc.)
2.) Speed (blocking adbanners + hardcoded favorite sites @ the top of it beating DNS indexes up to ~3++ million line entries using 20 of them)
3.) Reliability (vs. redirect poisoned or downed DNS servers - especially considering 99% of the DNS servers, especially @ the ISP level, are unpatched vs. the Kaminsky flaw)
4.) Anonymity to an extent (DNS request logs/DNSBL)).
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* See the entire list of what it does for you, which is a LOT MORE than AdBlock/Ghostery & the like in the link above...
APK
P.S.=> Using those crippled or advertiser owned (fox guarding the henhouse) addons? You're also "layered-in" over slower Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode browsers, slowing them down even more using addons (fact, try it in FireFox putting in a lot of addons, you'll see) - whereas my app operates in Ring 0/RPL 0/Kernelmode as a filter for the TCP/IP stack, written in C, which is also far faster than those tools are written in slower languages like Perl, Javascript, etc. & operates RIGHT @ OS + IP stack startup (making browser addons, redundant)... apk
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Re:Wrong (malware in adbanners)... apk
The worst work using fastflux & dynamic dns nature-flaws. I read just fine. You said the problem is not ads. I showed you ads being loaded with malware problems from reputable enough sources being a problem. A security problem no less.
APK
P.S.=> The second adbanners turned that up? This came out pretty much vs. that (& I held off until I saw that, kept it to myself - well, not anymore):
+ it gains you not only better "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" vs. botnets/maliciously scripted sites/servers + malware served from them etc. that's known & current, but also more speed via banner blocking & locally cached hardcoded favorites site @ the top of its result file, along with reliability vs. downed or redirect poisoned dns servers (+ those flaws above), & even 'anonymity' to an extent... apk
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Original "GP" poster here... apk
I get no ads or malscripted content via this creation of mine:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
I get NO malware/malscripted pages (redirects or otherwise) malware because of it.
(They are dangerous -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2013/06/26/malware-more-likely-to-come-from-legitimate-sites/?know-notenough= if that source isn't enough I can provide CISCO stating the same)
Most are Dynamic DNS + FastFlux based botnet attacks & are host-domain based (hard to kill vs. IP address based ones & it is the predominant design for malware/botnets).
I operate @ the IP stack level via tcpip.sys since hosts is a filter for it in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode far before (& faster than) browser addons in Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode (which slow down usermode browsers even more - fact).
Complaint to
Anyhow/anyways: FireFox users have NoScript - use it!
I use Opera 12.16 64-bit & set its GLOBAL site preference default to NO javascript, plugins, cookies, frames/iframes - in essence, things that get actively exploited maliciously (and then IF needed for full function on a site, then, as an "exception site"? I turn it on ONLY for that site only (think ecommerce or online banking etc.)).
Combining hosts & no javascript works (on smartphones since they have a bsd ip stack)!
APK
P.S.=> I also surf far, Far, FAR faster too not seeing adbanners or processing javascript - in fact, if you take a look @ the list of enumerated benefits it yields in added speed, security, reliability (vs. DNS faults especially) & even anonymity to an extent? You'll understand WHY I created it + made it freely available to others also - necessity WAS "the mother of that invention"... apk
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Agreed (especially on .exe compression)
"Been there/done that" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3958509&cid=44241949 & also saw "rules" in "heuristics" like if an app uses a WinRar SFX as a distro carrier/installer, then "it is a virus" (WTF?). Worse ones too, like if an app has networking code in it, and uses the "lowest common denominator" like NetScape 3.0 as its user-agent string, it too will be marked falsely as a "virus" - again, WTF!
The hilarious part? The app's been vetted as not a "virus/spyware" etc. free by folks in the security community itself, & they host it for me in fact (malwarebytes is 1 of them):
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
If you see the list of enumerated points it has there yielding better online speed, security, reliability & even anonymity to an extent? It'll truly make you wonder where they hell they were coming from classifying it as a "malware"... in the end? They all ended up removing it from their lists of malware. Bottom-line: When the people creating these programs can't even do their job correctly? "Houston, we have a problem!" & especially regarding my program, which works on a very simple principle: "What you can't touch, can't harm you"
APK
P.S.=> I got "the last laugh" & they "ate their words" (heuristics rules) vs. myself! No, & that's not a 1st either! I went thru the same with Computer Associates who hid they did the same to another app of mine years ago, not even letting me know about it (had to find it out myself). I took their removal test passed all 21 questions & on the advice of an attorney I do so! So I did - what'd they do? Lowered it to "zero threat levels". I passed all removal questions. So why was it not removed then? They don't follow their own rules! CA was caught in accounting scandals afterwards
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Tried submitting a story on it here on /.: Result?
http://slashdot.org/submission/2783319/adblock-getting-paid-by-google-to-allow-their-ads
* "REJECTED" & not only THAT, but it was utterly REMOVED from the "submissions" page within minutes!
(Truth != a "big thing" on
On a guess: Why? Well, by golly, can't have THAT coming out, now can we?? Hell no - especially when so many "sheep" here on
APK
P.S.=> "Yours truly" - who has created a FAR better solution that isn't advertiser-owned (foxes guarding the henhouse) like Ghostery, or "paid off" crippled (AdBlock):
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
Take a read of what's enumerated there as to the good it does users of its resultant output file (a custom hosts file) in terms of better added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent also...
... apk
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By overriding the default err handler
For compiler structured error handling & piping those to a log since they are "more scary"/"less intelligible" to non-coders! Then, also providing users a friendlier message to contact me via email, pushing the "E.Message" (from a variable E:Exception type), along with the notice to mail me that message OR the contents of %AppDir%/APKErrLog.txt which contains the actual structured err handler's data dump!
(Accessible since I override the "controlbox" in the upper left-hand side corner of EVERY Window/hWnd, & that simply spawns notepad.exe so they can copy/paste the errtrap log's data into said email to contact me with it).
It's worked out very well in this app so far the past year now (helped me take it from version 5.0++ to present 9.0++ in fact):
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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* Recently, I tested that ware above with a neighbor's kids - and yes: They beat the heck out of it, operating it way, Way, WAY "out-of-order" (vs. the order I intended for it to operate in, and it's clearly shown how that's done, including "wizardy" 'do this next' type stuff), but they didn't "follow directions" anyhow, & busted it a couple times! Well, in the end after that - that made me realize I had to account for that, too! In the end? The app came out much better than it was before version 9.0++!
APK
P.S.=> It's a working system, & that I received much data + great feedback for improvements from many testers the past year++ with! Yes - you can *try* to find all of your "bugs" or "useability issues" yourself, but good luck to that, especially when YOU designed the app - you have "set ways"/"set patterns" that "get in your way" imo, believe-it-or-not, when users, don't.
... apk
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Been there myself (not fun)... apk
Last year, right up into THIS year: FINALLY cleared! Myself, Mr. Steven Burn (hpHosts/malwarebytes), & Mr. Henry Hertz Hobbit (securemecca.org/hostsfile.net) went thru "false positives" findings by:
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1.) McAfee
2.) Norton/Symantec
3.) Comodo
4.) Trend
5.) ArcaVir/ArcaBit---
In the end?
* I had to prove them wrong, & did: EACH OF THEM REMOVED MY APP from their lists of "malware" per JOTTI online virus test etc./et al!
However: All that held back the release of this app:
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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By a good 2-3 months in 2012 in fact! Pissed me off, because I KNEW I wrote good, solid, & NO VIRUS code in it! In the end?? Guess who came up RIGHT ("yours truly").
It also created some "mistrust" of me on the part of those gents above (part of the security community - their job IS to be 'paranoid' of apps, rightfully so, considering they & their sites are OFTEN attacked online (DDoS & such)). I had to earn it back & did - they looked into it, and it was EXACTLY what I told them it would be (enumerated next below):
E.G.-> 1st - They didn't understand a 64-bit executable compressor technique I used!
2nd - They called anything distributed in a WinRar SFX a "virus"... WTF!
I.E.-> Some of their STUPID "rules" are just that - stupid!
(My app's small enough & is a "portable app", that all it NEEDS is a WinRar SFX to distribute it (keeps size of distro down too, much tinier than installer programs create)).
APK
P.S.=> Guys, trust me (from someone that's been here before):
These guys @ these AntiVirus companies? Most are pretty good, know how to trace & kernel level debug disassemble for the truth of things - however, their "heuristics" go way overboard @ times in their programs! Unfortunately, they're not always right... case in point, above (and below too)...
... apk
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Pfagh: Mere amateurs - noobz! apk
"Pfagh - a mere 'conjurers cone' - I DABBLED WITH SUCH PUNY TRICKS WHEN I WAS BUT A CHILD!" - "The Dread Dormammu" from Dr. Strange's early stories (Marvel).
Tell you boys what: Do me a favor, & "exploit this" (see link below) - I mean it, not data around it, IT...
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Anyone limiting themselves to NOT programming is doing that, to themselves. Users, with a better password/access level, nothing more. A waste of human portential imo - "been there/done that" over decades transitioning over - you learn TONS more on the coding end - tons. In fact, put it THIS way: Want a tool? Well, you just build it!
(You can - anyone reading who does will agree, that if you put in the time to know the goal & process end-to-end completely, data + all else, & then type it in, 1 line @ a time)
E.G. -> My latest effort here? ~35,000 lines http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
APK
P.S.=> Seriously though? This whole entire surveillance society thing is insane, & it's got to go, that's for sure (seeing Congress lied to did it for me). Nobody likes this whole spy on everyone business from a bunch of guys working in an agency that is supposed to surveil anyone BUT U.S. Citizens! That's all & makes sense, right? Hey. Nobody sane and speaking of their true/own free will I know @ least. It's wrong. Had a beer with a neighbor today and he spoke about this to me. We both don't like it, for example. Does anyone? Come on IF you say yes... lol! That's bullshit (I don't like projecting my views on others, but that's just my speaking sanity & truth is all on THAT one now)...
... apk
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Thanks (assuming you're not being sarcastic):
I am, & better than most online, because of this http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
* Take a read there, especially the enumerated list of benefits you get in added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent - you'll know WHY I said what I just did in response to you.
APK
P.S.=> HOWEVER: If you're just being a sarcastic trolls with some trite little phrase (meme b.s., comes & goes like the wind)? Then, as the Chinese say, iirc, to you in reply?? "May you live in interesting times" & as the southeners in the U.S. like to put it "Bless your heart!"... apk
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IF you can ID where it's served up from?
You're correct - a custom hosts file can block that out, no questions asked. "You can't get burned if you can't touch the flame" so-to-speak! Yes - You also can load even load up a custom hosts file on Android os bearing smartphones you know, using adb (Android Debugging Bridge) & its "pull" command - easily.
I'd recommend using a smaller 'optimized' hosts file and yes producers of them DO put those out!
("Optmized" meaning carrying more current infestors vs. older ones that might be using "FastFlux" or Dynamic DNS faults, since they're larger & space on Android's not exactly 'bountiful' imo, but less line entry records overall from over time).
* You end up with the same list of benefits I enumerate in the link below (where my custom hosts file import/normalize-depuplicate/sort/create program is) - & I do, as-per-my-usual, challenge ANY "naysayers" to disprove my points on custom hosts files' value to end users in better added speed, security, reliability, & yes, even anonymity to an extent as well Nobody can, or ever does - it is, clearly impossible: It's not my fault these naysayer trolls, usually by ac posts, are easy to outthink! It's too easy to do, every single time for me. Their trollish reactions though? They're even funnier - "just when trolls thought they 'know it all', along comes me to school them", lol!
APK
P.S.=> However, since you're modded "funny"? Then, I can be a lot funnier & challenge you to disprove the enumerated list of points regarding the good benefits custom hosts files give end users of them in added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity(to an extent vs. dns request logs + dnsbl's) in the link below :
... apk
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Kinda what I do
I use this free service http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ to generated an identity. I keep hitting
generate till I get a zip code that's close and use that info for whatever site.An email address to that identity is also available (for a price) but I use www.spamgourmet.com for that.
Cookies are taken care of with a
And of course a HOSTS file, I use APK to gather all the HOSTS files, combine them then make a HOSTS file from it's output
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
makes for one nice HOSTS file. -
This kills ALL ads (& more)... apk
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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* They can do the same for you too...
APK
P.S.=> Enjoy added/better speed, security, reliability, & even "anonymity" to an extent as well)...
... apk
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Incorrect... apk
"a hosts file blocks hostnames that you don't want programs on your device to connect to. That's all it does" - by tepples (727027) on Thursday July 04, 2013 @08:11AM (#44187041) Homepage
Custom hosts do more than that tepples & also speed you up 1 of 2 ways too:
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1.) "Hardcoding" your favorite sites in it (faster ip address resolution from host-domain names locally vs. remote DNS servers).
&
2.) Blocking adbanners (good & bad - which make up up to 40% of most websites' pages).
( + custom hosts files ALSO ADD: Reliability (vs. redirect poisoned or "downed" DNS servers), aid "anonymity" to an extent (vs. DNS request logs, + getting past DNSBLs), & add "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" (blocking known malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains that are malscripted OR serve up malwares/botnets etc.-et al))
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* LASTLY - I wrote you on this via your wiki page, email, & regarding points you made on hosts with corrections, not in a "malicous way" either ( & on "# of the beast" you discussed here too), here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3738579&cid=43696537 (use it!!!)
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The only "joke" around here is how EASILY I make mincemeat out of naysayers on tech points on this subject, every single time they *try* me on it!
APK
P.S.=> For a FULL list of benefits custom hosts files provide in (which I invite ANY "naysayers" to disprove me on no less):
A.) Added speed
B.) Added reliability
C.) Added "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth"
D.) Added "anonymity" (to an extent vs. DNS request logs + skirting DNSBL's too)See here (enumerated list + a 100% FREE program by "yours truly" that makes creating a custom hosts file from 12 reputable & reliable sources, easy):
... apk
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You use that faulty instracture in DNS
DNS = clearly faulty (especially in security) & you use it, hosts overcome that! Hosts also get you past downed/redirect poisoned DNS servers also! Hosts remove the threat of "fastflux" designed malware online/botnets/malicious sites etc.-et al,by avoiding them, totally! Fastflux botnets are the prevalent design, 99% of the time for decades in fact! They are HARD to kill recycling host-domain names they use - Which is WHY more of that is used by botnets vs. IP addresses (easy to kill in the latter).
FastFlux botnets abuse a flaw in DNS to operate essentially.
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* All that, & more - from a SINGLE file part of the IP stack used by tcpip.sys @ kernelmode driver level (fastest possible), written in C (near fast as possible) with less moving parts with room for breakdown...
Especially THIS kind of "room for breakdown" -> 2013: 5 years after major DNS flaw is discovered, few US companies have deployed long-term fix (DNS vs. Kaminsky Bug): -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/012913-dnssec-266197.html?page=1
APK
P.S.=> Anyone wonder WHY I built this, then?
Don't... & don't wonder WHY I released it publicly either:
See this discussion & only a partial list fragment of good results virtues a single file bestows on you running outta kernelmode in a multi-OS ported STABLE & FAST IP Stack as a driver using it as a filter (& since that's what it's really about, not the program, but the resulting output file's massive usefulness on many levels of versatility, nigh ubiquituous almost, in added/better speed, security, reliability, & even "anonymity" to an extent as well...)...
... apk
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"AdBlock" for ANYTHING
With a BSD-based IP stack (BETTER than AdBlock/Ghostery/Privoxy & uses less "moving parts", only native hosts file portion of the IP stack itself) -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
APK
P.S.=> Fact: AdBlock doesn't block all ads by default anymore
Fact: Ghostery is ADVERTISER OWNED (foxes guard the henhouse)
Fact: & Privoxy, like the other 2 browser addons (Ring 3/RPL 3/Usermode slow vs. Hosts Driver Level Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode speed) just noted, adds more "moving parts" & complexity!
AdBlock also can't do 10++ things hosts files can:
1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use
2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts
3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping
4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.
5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)
6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)
7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)
8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS/SPAMMERS/PHISHERS (hosts can)
9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)
10.) Protection vs. "FastFlux" botnets (where the IP address of a particular hostname/domainname & URL link correspond to changing IP addresses in a botnet)
11.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languages are used to make it from source)).
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Hosts = BETTER than Adblock... apk
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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* Adblock also CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver!
(Since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated into it)
Which is far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers, & addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox)
AND
Since The IP stack loads @ OS startup, thus the hosts file too into RAM for speed, & that makes AdBlock, redundant, since Hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack queries on webbound requests!
APK
P.S.=> 10++ things AdBlock can't do that hosts can:
1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use
2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts
3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping
4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.
5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)
6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)
7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)
8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)
9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)
10.) Protection vs. "FastFlux" botnets (where the IP address of a particular hostname/domainname & URL link correspond to changing IP addresses in a botnet)
11.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languages are used to make it from source)).
... apk
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Tearing you up again... apk
I don't do more than 5% dns lookups here (I know it from router logs, my browser histories, & firewall outbound logs I analyzed to make my 20 hardcoded favorites in my custom hosts file's topmost entries, which beat dns indexing by a mile to around 3 million records). News aggregator sites help also. They stop you hopping all over and summaries here for example are usually good. Comments do the rest from posters. Look at my hosts file program's "Speedup Favorite Sites" tab http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 as it does a reverse dns ping against the in-addr arpa 'tld' every time I build my hosts file. So much for my fav sites changing then. When your remote dns servers (or locally hosted one, stupid added complexity that wastes cpu cycles, ram, & other forms of i/o vs. what a single simple text file filter in hosts files gives you, operating @ Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode does, fast as possible mind you, vs. ring 3/rpl 3/usermode 'solutions' (slow)) fail a lookup, you bring down yet more time, in recursion. That last point brings up a huge security risk, considering most isp level (very bad) dns servers are not patched vs. the Kaminsky flaw, almost 6 yrs. after it was discovered and patched for. Do you even know what "FastFlux" botnet design is? Clue: It is "the" way, & the design botnets have used for more than a decade now, and yes, it recycles/reuses known bad sites/servers/hosts-domain names, like mad. As far as speed gains? Everyone knows that when you cut out adbanners, you lessen download by up to 40% of most website's pages (as well as lessening javascript processing, and the dangers in that in adbanners). Hardcoded favorites resolved locally from ram & kernelmode (IP stack & diskcache) do the rest vs. slower remote dns servers and their security issues especially. You fail again Jeremiah Cornelius.
APK
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Time to "tear you up", point-by-point... apk
I don't do more than 5% dns lookups here (I know it from router logs, my browser histories, & firewall outbound logs I analyzed to make my 20 hardcoded favorites in my custom hosts file's topmost entries, which beat dns indexing by a mile to around 3 million records). Look at my hosts file program's "Speedup Favorite Sites" tab http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 - it does a reverse dns ping against the in-addr arpa 'tld' every time I build my hosts file. So much for my fav sites changing then. When your remote dns servers (or locally hosted one, stupid added complexity that wastes cpu cycles, ram, & other forms of i/o vs. what a single simple text file filter in hosts files gives you, operating @ Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode does, fast as possible mind you, vs. ring 3/rpl 3/usermode 'solutions' (slow)) fail a lookup, you bring down yet more time, in recursion. That last point brings up a huge security risk, considering most isp level (very bad) dns servers are not patched vs. the Kaminsky flaw, almost 6 yrs. after it was discovered and patched for. Do you even know what "FastFlux" botnet design is? Clue: It is "the" way, & the design botnets have used for more than a decade now, and yes, it recycles/reuses known bad sites/servers/hosts-domain names, like mad. As far as speed gains? Everyone knows that when you cut out adbanners, you lessen download by up to 40% of most website's pages (as well as lessening javascript processing, and the dangers in that in adbanners). Hardcoded favorites resolved locally from ram & kernelmode (IP stack & diskcache) do the rest vs. slower remote dns servers and their security issues especially. You fail again Jeremiah Cornelius.
APK
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Hey, idiot... wake up! apk
I show a hell of a lot more than just hosts files here -> http://www.google.com/search?output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=x3yEUcTEC7Wh4APx4IDwDg
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APK
P.S.=> You're also MORE THAN WELCOME to disprove what I DO STATE about custom hosts files here:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Good luck - you'll need more than that though! I've watched 100's of you naysayer idiot trolls attempt to do so... not a single one of you has, not a one (which makes me laugh)...
... apk
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"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" troll... apk
"1st they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you, and then you win" Mahatma Gandhi & this initial post of mine you tried to "hide" vainly that exposed your NUMEROUS screwups technically on the subject YOU brought up here off topic (trying to be a nuisance again) -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3696709&cid=43581479
* You FAILED on all accounts here... & earlier this week, here especially -> http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3674733&cid=43530007
( & you know it, I know it, + so does anyone else reading this exchange!)
APK
P.S.=> Since you see fit to dispense advice after your FAILS above? Here's some for you:
"take a chill pill d00d." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 29, 2013 @04:04PM (#43584321)
Take your own advice troll, & instead, learn more on this subject!
(Especially since your initial ac troll post rated "funny" only let ME have "the last laugh" here, & especially per that 2nd lower link above where the "tech details" for it are - & your 1st troll posts' INCORRECT on Linux info. you posted there too per my statement there in my 'p.s.' termination).
Your complete FAIL here shows you NEED to, badly!
Try instead to do something productive with your time that helps others out on NUMEROUS fronts for better online speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent... Like I have here -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
That's more useful than your 'trolling' others like the punk you're showing us all you truly are... apk
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AC Troll: Quit "projecting"... apk
"Jesus, what kind of disgusting gay porn sites do you visit?" - by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 29, 2013 @01:28PM (#43582323)
See my subject-line above, & to answer you? I don't, thanks to what I created shown below & my 15++ reputable & reliable sources for custom hosts file data (that it imports-deduplicates/normalizes, converts for faster/smaller blocking addresses, & sorts).
That, combined with 15++ yrs. of effort of my own in researching security articles OR finding those bogus sites myself also & adding them to my custom hosts file, or firewall rules tables (IF/WHEN IP address based, the least used due to "fastflux" designed botnets MOSTLY being out there now...).
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"You have almost 2 million malware/ad entries in your hosts file?" - by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 29, 2013 @01:28PM (#43582323)
1,971,340++ as of 7 a.m. this morning to be precise!
A.) The top "block" is 20 of my FAVORITE sites I hardcoded into it for both speed, & reliability (vs. dns failings mostly in security here, but also since querying a local in memory cached host is faster than calling out to remote DNS too - where favs @ the top beat indexing even up to 2 million++ entries!)
B.) The lower rest of them are BLOCKED (not meant to be gotten to, this is a security portion along with hardcodes helping against downed or redirect poisoned dns & it is EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE vs. modern botnet designs (ala "fastflux" I noted above)).
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"You have a problem." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 29, 2013 @01:28PM (#43582323)
Actually, NO, I don't... & especially since I made creating such a custom hosts file a snap & gui easy, thus:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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HOWEVER. lol, but YOU DO HAVE A PROBLEM (and more than 1, noted in my 'p.s.' below) - in that you can't disprove my points, & thus/again: YOU FAIL, & you know it, I know it, + so does anyone else reading here as well, because of that.
APK
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"P.S. Please stop with the incoherent ranting." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 29, 2013 @01:28PM (#43582323)
1.) Please DO try to disprove my points on what custom hosts files give you in added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request loggings) listed in the link to my program above (good luck - NOBODY ever has or will)
2.) Please QUIT "projecting" your own "StRaNgE-TaSTeS" in where YOU like to go online (lmao - hey, after all: YOU said it, projecting your own "phatasies", lol!).
3.) Please *TRY* to be on topic - even though your hosts post is NOT on topic!
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Yes, I know - Those 3 suggestions I made to you would be a HUGE effort for the 'trolling off topic likes of you' & especially after you've been utterly "blown away" by yours truly on the tech of this - but do TRY!
... apk
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You did it wrong... apk
With large hosts files turn off the faulty local dns clientside cache service in Windows. The local diskcaching kernelmode subsystem will cache hosts data into memory for speed of access + lookups from it, from there instead. This is a KNOWN problem in the dns cache service.
Fact: The clientside local dns cache service in Windows IS KNOWN FAULTY with larger hosts files. Turning it off stops the stalling it creates, and saves CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O it was using too AND "faulting" on badly with larger hosts file data too (bonus).
By doing the above? I have LITERALLY 1,968,270++ known bad sites/servers blocked in it protecting me from their payloads of malicious script
&
20 of my favorite sites also hardcoded in it @ THE TOP OF THE CUSTOM HOSTS FILE, important for speed vs. indexing (as well as blocking adbanners) - both act to speed me up, AND protect me online from threats.
"What I can't touch, can't hurt me" (OR, slow me down either) in other words!
Additionally - I go faster online for it as well (doublel bonus).
Custom hosts files work for your good by helping end-users of custom hosts files generated by giving users faster online performance, better security online, better reliability, and even more anonymity, by:
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1.) Blocking adbanners (roughly 40% of every website page on average)
2.) Blocking malicious sites/servers that are malscripted or serving malware executables
3.) By hardcoding your favorites into a custom hosts file (faster than remote DNS resolution & uses less power than a locally run full-blown DNS server, without the risk of recursively setup dns, which you will have to do, and thus, redirection dns-poisoning too).
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* Lastly - this program I created will import, deduplicate/normalize, & sort the resulting custom hosts file populating data (from a dozen++ reputable + reliable sources) for you:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++:
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(Enjoy! It does ALL IT STATES, enumerated in 16 points in that link for you... giving you more speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs)).
In fact - I welcome ANY "naysayer" here to disprove it does what is listed there in 16 points to the GOOD of end users of custom hosts files, in the link for its download above...
Good luck "naysayers": Many tried, all failed in that challenge, every single time (most of all, Jeremiah Cornelius, hence his 'spamming' us attempting to "impersonate me" & discredit me as a spammer).
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Sorry about Jeremiah Cornelius' "impersonations" of myself, by the100's in ac posts, but he gave away he's doing THAT, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741
and
b>I see you all up-rated my post regarding that to +5 too here in this article -> http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3671613&cid=43512619
(Thanks - Since it's about time more folks KNEW who's doing this spamming of
Again: Thanks - even though he JUST "downmodded it" to +4 only, it did its job informing others of WHO is spamming this forums constantly...
... apkWith large hosts files turn off the faulty local dns clientside cache service in Windows. With large hosts files turn off the faulty local dns clientside cache service in Windows.
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Agreed, 110% (unfortunately)... apk
The reason I state this, is because I've been building up a successful blacklist (albeit NOT vs. "spam" or phishers only, but more vs. online threats in maliciously scripted sites &/or servers known to serve up malware etc.):
Yes, thus - I'd have to say, based on 15++ yrs. of experience doing it (based on reputable & reliable sites listed below) that yes, MOST of it comes from those nations (& that's why I said "unfortunately" in my subject-line - since I know their people are NOT "all bad", just that they have a lot of what you state going on).
I base this not only on "opinion" but HARD DATA too!
From a list I apply in custom hosts files of over 1,967,147 such bogus sites/servers that grows by almost 200 - 2,000 such sites each day, approximately (that *might* strike some of you as "fantastic", but it's real)... I get my data from the following sites:
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt
http://www.malware.com.br/cgi/submit?action=list_hosts_win_0000
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=lastupdated
http://safeweb.norton.com/noscript/
http://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://www.malwareurl.com/
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=1&mimetype=plaintext
http://www.safer-networking.org/dl/
http://amada.abuse.ch/palevotracker.phpAND, then I import, consolidate, sort, & deduplicate that data using this application I wrote to do so:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Why? Simple - it works, & on the SIMPLEST PRINCIPLE OF ALL: What you can't touch, can't hurt you... & I never was the type of person to just "sit around & take it" - I do something about it, IF possible. The above IS my possible, and it is possible & works (in combination with all I put into this security guide I authored from 1997-2007, here -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22How+to+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=PjNrUcDVGpSz4AOJuIHQDQ that works on the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING: "Layered-Security"/"Defense-in-Depth"... & yes, it works! )
APK
P.S.=> Any questions?
... apk
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I do pretty much the same here... apk
Except I completely control it locally @ the fastest level of operations possible (the TCP/IP stack running in PnP designed kernelmode/rpl 0/ring 0 operations) as a filter:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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(What custom hosts files do for me in added value for better speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent is listed there in 16 discrete points...)
* "Auto-Magically" populating & creating a custom hosts file from 14++ reputable & reliable sources for data for protecting vs. known malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains:
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt
http://www.malware.com.br/cgi/submit?action=list_hosts_win_0000
http://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://www.malwareurl.com/
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=1&mimetype=plaintext
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://safeweb.norton.com/buzz
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=lastupdated
http://amada.abuse.ch/palevotracker.phpAPK
P.S.=> Best part is, it's not only of value for security, but also for added:
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1.) Speed (via blocking adbanners as well as bogus sites online, but also via "hardcoding" your favorite sites into it for FASTER IP address resolution locally than from remote DNS servers (which have faults in them, many of which remain unpatched vs. the Kaminsky DNS redirection poisoning flaw, 1/2 a decade++ later AFTER its discovery -> )
2.) Reliability (vs. said unpatched flaw above OR downed remote DNS servers)
3.) To an extent, anonymity (vs. DNS request logs)
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... apk
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Oh, really? Why does it work... apk
"The reason people impersonate you is because everyone thinks you're a moron. "The hosts file is not intended to be used as you suggest. But it's pretty damn funny, though." - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28, @10:42AM (#43302885)
Just as I state to end-user's benefit in better speed, security, reliability, + anonymity to an extent online, here (per my subject-line above):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 64-bit:
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Hmmm?
* You're welcome to disprove the 16 points there validly on computing based grounds...
(Good luck - You'll NEED it (& that won't help either: It can't be done, & 100's of trolls like yourself have tried + failed consistently in over years here...)).
APK
P.S.=> By the way - Here's roughly a 100
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* THE HOSTS FILE GROUP 40++ THUSFAR (from +5 -> +1 RATINGS, usually "informative" or "interesting" etc./et al):
APPLYING HOSTS TO DIFF. PLATFORM W/ TCP-IP STACK BASED ON BSD: 2008 -> http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1944892&cid=34831038
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1490078&cid=30555632
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1461288&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=30272074
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1255487&cid=28197285
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1206409&cid=27661983
0.0.0.0 in HOSTS:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1197039&cid=27556999
0.0.0.0 IN HOSTS:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1143349&cid=27012231
0.0.0.0 in HOSTS:2009 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1198841&cid=27580299
0.0.0.0 in HOSTS:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139705&cid=26977225
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1319261&cid=28872833 (still says INSIGHTFUL)
APK 20++ POINTS ON HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1913212&cid=34576182
HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1869638&cid=34237268
HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1907266&cid=34529608
HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1725068