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Re:Best way to filter web content:
I use hosts for better speed, security, reliability, & anonymity online. They work and are easy to manage. I use this program to do it http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 , for free, getting you back your money's worth with more peace of mind too.
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"Ask & ye SHALL receive"... apk
QUESTION - WHERE'S YOUR LIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS ON YOUR PART TO YOUR NAME/CREDIT in the art & science of computing??
After all - IF you're going to 'talk-the-talk', show us you can 'walk-the-walk', first... & I did ask that of you, so I could judge you as a possible PEER, not just some "armchair QB" attempting to tell myself "how to do it" (lol, especially when I've done that MANY TIMES, myself, from this only PARTIAL list below of times I have):
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873
Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/ [sourceforge.net] via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74
AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:
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AdBlock & Ghostery = inferior to hosts
Especially on this note of redirection (hosts file hardcodes stop that, for one thing, ALONG WITH ADBANNERS TOO - plus custom hosts files can do 10 things listed below, adblock can't, period...):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA [google.com]
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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.) 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)).
& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!
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Same with Ghostery:
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Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company.
They were originally named Better Advertising, I
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Agreed, 110%, on "Defense in Depth"... apk
I use a combination of things for "defense-in-depth"/"layered-security" purposes & with GOOD solid reasons + for SPEED GAINS as well!
(So, if 1 fails or is compromised in either capacity? Then, the others make up for it)
Now - it's a LONG read of a reply to you here... however, it's really 'detailed' to-the-max, & specifically in regards to layered security/defense in depth + WHY (many issues listed below in DNS, browser addons, & more in malicious script online, even in adbanners):
I use a layering of these tools to achieve my goals of best possible online SPEED, & yes, also SECURITY too:
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1.) Custom hosts files
2.) Remote filtering DNS servers (listed below)
3.) Firewall rules (populated by a PowerShell script)
4.) Browser PAC files
5.) Custom CSS in my browser
6.) Even browser addons (not as many as I used to though, for good reasons noted below (because they've been 'compromised' as far as I am concerned)) - in NoScript specifically, on Mozilla/FireFox products, & AdBlock in Opera.---
For security - Custom hosts files are GREAT vs. "fastflux" botnet C&C Servers (or other types), since the malware-maker/botnet master behind them has a "long term investment in time" in using host-domain names (vs. IP addresses), shifting WHERE & WHEN said host-domain name actually "lives" out there in his botnet (which is easily changed in a "fastflux" botnet, say, that's used to serve up a FAKE website page to infest you & yes, that DOES go on) - hence, where the value of hosts lies, for security. For Speed - hosts also can block out adbanners that suck up my bandwidth (and have been shown to infect folks online too, listed partially below) that I paid for out of pocket & can also "hardcode in" my favorite sites to get EVEN MORE speed back
IP addressed based bogus sites/servers are easily dealt with in firewall rules tables (but, this is BY FAR the lesser route used, & often ONLY as a "fallback" - but, it's also a lot more easily 'cut off' @ higher than user levels too, since it represents a "stationary target")...
External "filtering" DNS servers (many good ones listed below) are the "final stage", external to your system (I don't believe in running a local DNS due to several factors also listed below - in problems DNS has (numerous KNOWN ones), complexity, electricity usage, & more...).
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I favor custom hosts above ALL others above though, & here is WHY:
The "IP Stack natively provideth 1st" built in - custom hosts files, natively, & tightly integrated with the IP stack + its built-in DNS resolver engines @ the kernelmode/ring 0/rpl 0 level - clean, fast, & over 44++ yrs. of optimization poured into it over time since 1969. The IP stack loads @ OS startup, thus the hosts file too into RAM for speed, & that makes AdBlock &/or Ghostery, wasteful + redundant.
Hosts ARE superior to Ghostery &/or AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.
Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solut
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Custom hosts = BETTER start than Ghostery
The "IP Stack natively provideth 1st" built in - custom hosts files, natively, & tightly integrated with the IP stack + its built-in DNS resolver engines @ the kernelmode/ring 0/rpl 0 level - clean, fast, & over 44++ yrs. of optimization poured into it over time since 1969. The IP stack loads @ OS startup, thus the hosts file too into RAM for speed, & that makes AdBlock &/or Ghostery, wasteful + redundant.
Hosts ARE superior to Ghostery &/or AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.
Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
Hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack queries on webbound requests -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172218
(Thus, since the IP stack is already loaded by the OS @ bootup & on requests by client programs - guess what? Hosts make adblock & ghostery, REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL, also! )
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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 progra
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No big deal with ADB & a custom hosts file
Want to block ads (or anything else that slows you down or infects you online with malicious script, OR makes you part of a botnet & more that's bogus)?
ADB (Android Debugging Bridge) & custom hosts file "how-to":
FROM -> http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1930156&cid=34713952
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1.) Get ahold of the "Android Debugging Bridge" (ADB) & install it
2.) Mount your system mountpoint as READ + WRITE (as powerful of priveleges as you need is this)
3.) Using the PULL command, copy the file over from your PC (or even on your ANDROID if its there already) using PULL & overwrite the etc. folder's copy of HOSTS
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DONE! Yes, it's THAT simple... &, it works!
(You *may* have to run a DosToUnix textfile formatting utility over the custom hosts you created if you generated it in Windows (say, via this app I created for it -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 which imports custom hosts file data for added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent also from 12++ reputable + reliable sources online for such data))
APK
P.S.=> Block ANYTHING you want that way, AND, also speed up access to your favorite sites too (double-bonus) & also proof yourself vs. DNS flaws (like redirect poisoning since most ISP's are STILL NOT PATCHED vs. the Kaminsky flaw in that capacity) & downed DNS servers too, aiding reliability of access to your 'said favorite sites' as well...
... apk
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The app I posted acquires it for you... apk
"Correct me if I'm wrong, though: to generate blocked IPs in a custom hosts file, don't I have to know those IP's in the first place?" - by argStyopa (232550) on Wednesday March 13, @12:37PM (#43160641)
No, just a hostname/domainname (no ip needed to block). To speed up a site, just "ping" it by host/domain name, ala:
ping slashdot.org
Which WILL determine this site's IP address (as an example)...
(That will allow you to speed up access to your fav. websites (which AdBlock CANNOT do for you, whereas hosts can, along with blocking adbanners (or other content)).
To block a site? Just put this type of entry into a custom hosts file:
0.0.0.0 sitetoblock.com
As an example thereof...
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"Ie, don't I have to have been bitten by that dog (or at least know he's vicious) to know I want to ban him from my house?" - by argStyopa (232550) on Wednesday March 13, @12:37PM (#43160641)
Nope - see the application in the link in my 'p.s.' below - it does it FOR you, "automagically" from 12 reputable & reliable sources for that type of data (for security online), vs. known malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains online (such as botnet C&C servers, maliciously scripted sites, adbanners & FAR more)!
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"One of the adblock advantages (and I grant, they're not perfect) is that they ALREADY have built this list." - by argStyopa (232550) on Wednesday March 13, @12:37PM (#43160641)
Same deal via the application in my 'p.s.' below I created too, BUT, you can EASILY EDIT a custom hosts file using notepad.exe or other text editors (located by default in Windows in %WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc) since it's only a text file filter for the IP stack itself...
ONE THAT MAKES ADBLOCK REDUNDANT (as is, it's less useful anyhow by far, & moreso since they 'crippled it' by default vs. adbanners blockings).
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"(I hope that despite posting AC, you come back and reply.)" - by argStyopa (232550) on Wednesday March 13, @12:37PM (#43160641)
Yes, sorry about the "belated reply", but I was out-of-town & offline for a few days is all... my belated apology, & my reply to you now then, right now!
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"Great overview, if a little histrionic." - by argStyopa (232550) on Wednesday March 13, @12:37PM (#43160641)
You're welcome - it's only facts (undeniable, concrete & verifiable truths)... nothing more/nothing less.
APK
P.S.=> The application I speak of does it all for you, see its link below for its features & benefits to you in added speed, security, reliability, + even anonymity to an extent online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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That's the link to my custom hosts files generating applications (that uses 12 reputable & reliable sources for blocking out threats listed in that link above, in 16++ points enumerated there as to benefits in speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent online)...
It will speed up favorite sites YOU provide it (via a reverse DNS ping -a sitename.com) + import data to block out (in known malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains online & adbanners, too)...
... apk
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Adblock = inferior to custom hosts files
Hosts ARE superior to AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.
Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
Hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack queries on webbound requests -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172218
(Thus, since the IP stack is already loaded by the OS @ bootup & on requests by client programs - guess what? Hosts make adblock REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL also! )
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means y
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Adblock = inferior to custom hosts files
Hosts ARE superior to AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.
Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
Hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack queries on webbound requests -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172218
(Thus, since the IP stack is already loaded by the OS @ bootup & on requests by client programs - guess what? Hosts make adblock REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL also! )
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means y
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Ghostery = inferior to custom hosts files
Hosts ARE superior to AdBlock &/or Ghostery on several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.
Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
Hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack queries on webbound requests -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172218
(Thus, since the IP stack is already loaded by the OS @ bootup & on requests by client programs - guess what? Hosts make adblock REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL also! )
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblo
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Adblock = inferior to custom hosts files
Hosts ARE superior to AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to VALIDLY disprove me on them, listed below in fact.
Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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 LOADS FAR BEFORE ADBLOCK DOES, making adblock REDUNDANT & wasteful in fact since hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack calls on via its built-in DNS resolver, which your browsers + email need to do, before adblock even BEGINS to operate)!
That is also far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers (& addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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.) 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 languag
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Adblock = inferior to custom hosts
On several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.
"AdBlock has a scheme where if your Ads are place sympathetically, they're not blocked." - by devitto (230479) on Sunday March 10, @08:39AM (#43130099) Homepage
Hosts have a BETTER one - don't WANT an ad (or anything else that may be blocked in hosts) blocked?
Just open hosts (in Windows, beneath %WinDir%\System32\drivers\etc, & you MUST do this as administrator class user - save the file elsewhere if need be, & then overwrite via drag-N-drop copy overwriting the original hosts) with a text editor to do so!
One like notepad.exe & boom: Edit out that line item entry, save hosts again, & DONE!
That easily! A user has DIRECT control of them...
Here's how I generate custom hosts files for gaining users & myself added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent!
(Easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
Hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack queries on webbound requests, & since the IP stack is already loaded by the OS @ bootup & on requests by client programs - guess what? Hosts make adblock REDUNDANT also!
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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 it
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Ghostery = Inferior to custom hosts files
On several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.
Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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.) 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)).
& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!
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Same with Ghostery:
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FROM -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2931443&cid=40412193
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You're off-topic, troll... apk
Hosts have nothing to do with this. Try be on topic here. It's serious in this topic as well, or don't you fear being roasted alive OR being slowly poisoned to death (as well as those you love, IF any exist, which I strongly doubt with online slime trolls such as yourself in fact)...
*
APK
P.S.=> I honestly don't understand *WHY* you keep this insanity up, considering you've been TOLD to stop it, and get professional psychiatric help from your
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http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3521797&cid=43096277
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3522191&cid=43096733
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3521669&cid=43094855
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Now, "the infamous they" say this oft-quoted saying:
"1 definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over expecting different results"
You clearly exemplify it. I must have really, Really, REALLY "injured your 'geek pride'" shutting you down on custom hosts files benefits to end users in added speed, security, & reliability (as well as anonymity to an extent also) online.
Especially since you're unable to disprove points I put up about hosts files listed here -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74
Fact is - I *might* actually even WELCOME a VALID attempt @ disproving the points in favor of custom hosts file usage listed there (16 points) - won't happen, many have tried over time (on this site & a few others, only to FAIL dismally each & every single time they did, which I felt was utterly hilarious, + exposed their "motivations" as well in the same stroke - bonus).
However, as usual? Your continued "FAILS"'d only make me stronger for it, as usual... lol!
(However - it's obvious you've tried & failed @ it, hence your reprehensible b.s. spawned from your "wounded" pride & the resultant "geek angst" you feel @ your failure to do so meeting my challenge above!)
Especially with your nigh constant stalking ac posts of myself after my posts (or not), but... if you wish to look the fool, fine. That's purely up to you!
... apk
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I authored the program in this link inside
Not hostsexpert, but rather this program -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 - to me, it really doesn't matter if you use mine or the one you note, but that you know how to 'work around' difficulties with the end-result (hosts files themselves) & more importantly (perhaps most of all) WHY they fail @ times (internal formatting on diff. OS, or other reasons) - which is RARE, but it does happen (usually, it's the notepad.exe "save as" *.txt default that does folks in, not tabs though as was the case here apparently).
I've tried HostsXpert (one MUST 'check out the competition' & all that, lol), & yes - It's alright & does the job well enough (as does hostsman)!
However, there's things mine does (such as favorite sites to speed up via SITES.TXT you edit to suit yourself & YOUR favorite sites) that others do not afaik per my last testings of them.
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A.) Speeding up favorite sites of yours: That not only speeds up access to them, but also proofs you vs. downed or dns-poisoned DNS servers as well.
B.) I also offer a NATIVE 64-bit model, & afaik, the others do not also.
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(A & B are just as a couple examples of what I meant...)
* In any event, the "bottom-line" & MOST important part here, is that you have the GOOD SENSE to realize the OS & IP stack provide you with a powerful tool in a single file that works wonders on things "online".
(And, that you take advantage of it - That's the important part here!)
APK
P.S.=> In any event - I am glad to have helped... it was GOOD review for me, and yes, there is a 2 week/14 day limit on the duration/life of being able to post into slashdot for doing replies to post threads (a good thing I think, especially during being "trolled", lol)!
... apk
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Been doing it for decades now... apk
I've been doing the following with Ramdisks/Ramdrives below, & since 1992 or so, 1st by using separate HardDisks (slower seek/access by FAR)!
Then, later applying Software-Based Ramdrives to database work with EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on paid contract (which did me VERY WELL @ both Windows IT Pro magazine in reviews, & also MS TechEd 2000-2002 in its hardest category: SQLServer Performance Enhancement & SuperSpeed.com too - since I improved their wares efficacy by up to 40% via programmatic control & tuning programs for them) - which, only the past few years now it seems, OTHERS are finally "latching onto" for performance purposes in database work in industrial environs!
Then using software ramdisks (even one I wrote up based off the MS DDK template -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22APK+RamDisk%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=Ak43UduzLYbk8gSauYCIDA to do so (per the list below on how I apply them)
&
Now FINALLY using RamDisks/RamDrives in hardware:
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A.) 2000-2005 using the CENATEK "RocketDrive" 2gb PC-133 SDRAM based on a PCI 2.2 bus
B.) 2005-present using the Gigabyte IRAM 4gb DDR2-RAM based on a PCI Express bus
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Doing SOMETHING sort-of along the lines of what's being done in the "hybrid" caching scene, & that's using equipment/hardware like I do in the following ways:
For example - I do it this way (along with other things, & on a "TRUE SSD" (not based on FLASH ram & it's performance degrading life expectancy lessening "ways")):
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1.) I move files around to different drives (1 being what I call a "TRUE SSD", that uses DDR RAM, the Gigabyte IRAM 4gb PCI-e 8x slot based SATA 150gb/sec. solidstate drive I have)
2.) A Promise Ex-8350 PCI-e 8x slot based 128mb ECC RAM Raid 6 capable Caching Controller (that controls 2 10,000 rpm Western Digital 16mb buffered "Velociraptor" HDDs)
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(Both supplementing the existing caches noted above @ the Operating System filesystem level, AND, the block device level)
I also supplement my 10,000 rpm SATA II disks using a Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC memory Caching Controller (keep it OFF hdd's as much as possible, & in RAM instead is the idea/game here).
I move the following things off of my WD Velociraptor 10,000 rpm 8mb buffered (which also lessens physical head movement on disks & THIS is where I am going to make it even FASTER, read on & reduces fragmentation as well in the same stroke - "BONUS"):
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A.) Pagefile.sys
B.) OS & Application level logging (EventLogs + App Logging)
C.) ALL WebBrowser caches, histories, sessions & browsers too
D.) Print Spooling
E.) %Temp% ops (OS & user level temp ops)
F.) %Tmp% ops (OS & user level temp ops)
G.) %Comspec% (command interpreter location)
H.) I also place my custom hosts file onto it, via redirecting WHERE it's referenced by the OS, here in the registry (for performance AND security):--
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters
And the "DataBasePath" parameter there...
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Which also acts more-or-less, like a *NIX shadow password system also!
(That's good, vs. any malware that *might* attempt to 'mess with it since the original residing in %WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc is pretty much only a 'decoy' @ that point, lol!)
However, modern Windows uses UAC to protect it, & I also apply read-only rights to it to supplement that, & my hosts file import/deduplicate/favorites hardcoder mgt. system I wrote -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&It
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The technique WILL work (especially if/when...)
Distributed across MULTIPLE servers, especially with smaller data, will work well for performance!
This even works with simple text files, albeit even on a single machine (& is very effective with thread usage in combination with it on a multi-core machine)...
So - how do I KNOW this?
Couple ways, actually (in databasing first of all, but more recently, even with this):
That version of my application for host file mgt. has an "update" (version 6.0++) that I have been testing prior to re-release that is FASTER & uses something MUCH like what's being done here in fact...
The updated model takes the single, relatively LARGE custom hosts file data intake (between new data & merging the OLD data, deduplicating & normalizing it) as a single file, & essentially "shards" it too!
See - 1st, I pushed as far as I could go with it (does the job in under 7 minutes on an Intel I7 Core 3970/top-of-the-line afaik) & that was even using "tricks" like upping the CPU priority as well of the parent process thread doing that work...
Now - the new one's architecture varies on that & does the job, better/faster, so far:
I busted the data up as I process it & sent it to process simultaneously on multiple threads, 1 to a 'shard'...
(Threads for as many as the datasets I broke the single file into)
I cut the time down to THAT, albeit on a FAR lesser machine in testing here @ home!
(Intel I7 Core 920 - basically "middle of the road" in performance CPU's from INTEL nowadays, if that (it changes so far, more cache etc./et al on the better more costly chips - just like the one above, which I had a gamer I know who ALWAYS has the "latest/greatest" equipment test for me... same data I used, same all the way around, EXCEPT for my use of "sharding" (sort of))).
Thus - It shows you an algorithm/technique IS superior to "brute horsepower" which you should only use as a last resort...
APK
P.S.=> Now, above ALL else here - I've been doing database work in information systems since 1994 professionally, & anybody that's been doing it for awhile WILL tell you this - watch it with "big" JOINS: They're an example of where things get "too hairy" & SLOW...
So, by doing this 'sharding' technique, they're doing essentially what I noted above in my app that works on a single text file, & working across multiple smaller parts that make up a whole ordinarily & seeing speed/performance boosts!
That'd only get BETTER in a distributed computing scenario (just like how commonplace multiple hundreds of PC's can outdo supercomputers in a SINGLE rig)...
Breaking it into multiple parts for threaded concurrent processing IF NOT across multiple machines, will work...
Lastly: I even noted that here when I 1st built it, to a "naysayer" on HOW I was going to "eke more oomph" outta it using the SAME BASIC IDEA of busting the data up into smaller parts & using threads to get more outta it, AROUND THIS TIME LAST YEAR no less -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2019504&cid=35365340
No question it works, and the 'variation' they're doing above will too, no questions asked! LOL, makes me wonder IF they "bit off my idea" (there's very little original thought though, but you never know, however I'd think that anyone with a bit of experience in DB work would know this or come to that realization independently, anyhow)...
... apk
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Re:Thanks for the info.! apk
(However - are you ABSOLUTELY sure it does that with the TAB
character? Again - I've seen many hosts files that use that between the IP
address & the host-domain name's why I ask!)Bottom line, It changes spaces to tabs of ones HOSTS file yet appears the HOSTS file will still work.
To test once again if Hostexpert 4.4 disables ones HOSTS file I downloaded, It's a stand alone,
doesn't need to be installed - Just two files; the executable and aUnder my previous XP's (Dual boot) my HOSTS file wasn't doing anything, I
searched long and hard for a fix, one time opened the HOSTS file in Notepad++
when I found the spaces were tabs. UltraEdit is my text editor of choice and
special charters are normally off. I made a macro in UltraEdit to replace the
tabs with spaces as my HOSTS file is over 19000 lines.I still ran Hostexpert 4.4, when the HOSTS file quit working I'd find tabs
again and have to rerun the macro at which time it would work again. It's a
random error unless you right click on an entry and select "Toggle Comment",
at which time it's a gimme your spaces are now tabs.Under Win7 it doesn't matter, so I installed XP and this time the tabs made no
difference. Using no HOSTS file and one with spaces and one tabbed, Slashdot.org
only showed ads with no HOSTS file.So I was wrong, but at the time a tabbed HOSTS file didn't work in two
separate XP systems; a spaced HOSTS file did. I quit using Hostexpert years
ago as it did indeed disable my HOSTS file at the time.Thank you for the feed back, it made me go back and retest a really good
HOSTS file editor actually. While it will change your spaces after the 127.0.0.1
or 0.0.0.0 to tabs, it apparently doesn't affect it's operation.See it here to understand what I mean -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option
Creates a seriously large file all sites selected, 3732K larger than mine or and extra 100,000+ lines.
I'd suggest allowing one to add single addresses but the program doesn't give an end product.
Under "Speedup favorite sites" changing Bing.com to Google.com would be a plus -
In favor of it IF you reported it 1st to adversely
Affected vendor, as I did (& the parent poster to my post too) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3489093&cid=42995009
"Which is sad because it's a valid point that you're trying to make, sometimes the name & shame strategy does work." - by Thruen (753567) on Sunday February 24, @09:19AM (#42995051)
It does & CAN, especially if you do it FAIRLY (as I stated in my subject-line above - confront the adversely affected vendor, first... only right & fair to do, imo @ least!).
THAT, is truly "responsible disclosure"
So, yes - I agree, 110%: It IS or can be, something that works...
NOW - what I noted on MS' IP stack & custom hosts files?
Hey, on MY part??
That's NOT the only "fix" I've helped make with vendors over time!
(Even giving them code to do it as with UltraDefrag64 more recently -> (A 64-bit FREE defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873 (I could've posted BETTER code too, lol, but it works in concept porting from Delphi Object-Pascal to C/C++ easily enough).
Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/ via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 )
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ALSO as I did with FireFox/Mozilla folks years beforehand who came right into NTCompatible.com with us, & helped fix it with the site's owner/webmaster, Philip.
Thus: BOTH issues were patched with my suggestions & notifying them...
From smaller vendors too!
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BOTH companies in FF & UltraDefrag64 were better about it by FAR, unlike MS, whom I notified YEARS AGO, though... & right to the head of the division concerned with PERFORMANCE too, no less!
(& that IS performance gains I proved & he even conceded... nothing was done!).
APK
P.S.=> So, do I agree with "name & shame" tactics? Yes, but... ONLY if you report it validly to the concerned software maker 'oem', first! Only fair...
... apk
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Ghostery = INFERIOR to custom hosts files
1st of all - Ghostery's owned by advertisers. Read this from CISCO ->
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More dangerous to click on an online advertisement than an adult content site these days, Cisco said:
http://www.securityweek.com/easier-get-infected-malware-good-sites-shady-sites-cisco-says
(& I can put dozens more out to go with it if you wish - "ask & ye shall receive"...)
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This is a far, Far, FAR better solution in the next link below, by "yours truly", since it's merely working natively with the custom hosts file itself, & that only!
I.E. -> It's no added weight to process data for the IP stack itself really, doesn't need to remain resident (though the program below can & be useful) & it makes gathering reliable data from 12++ reputable security oriented sites easy as apple pie possible:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as Ghostery's concerned especially, not after this):
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FROM -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2931443&cid=40412193
Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company. They were originally named Better Advertising, Inc., but changed their name for obvious PR reasons. Despite the name change, let's be clear on one thing: their goal still is building better advertising, not protecting consumer privacy. Evidon bought Ghostery, an independent privacy tool that had a good reputation. They took a tool that was originally for watching the trackers online, something people saw as a legitimate privacy tool, and users were understandably concerned. The company said they were just using Ghostery for research. Turns out they had relationships with a bunch of ad companies and were compiling data from which sites you visited when you were using Ghostery, what trackers were on those sites, what ads they were, etc., and building a database to monetize. (AND, when confronted about it, they made their tracking opt-in and called it GhostRank, which is how it exists today.) They took an open-source type tool, bought it, turned it from something that's actually protecting people from the ad industry, to something where the users are actually providing data to the advertisers to make it easier to track them. This is a fundamental conflict of interest.
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TRUE Nuclear 1st strike: AdBlock = inferior
The "IP Stack natively provideth 1st" built in - custom hosts files, natively, & tightly integrated with the IP stack & its built-in DNS resolver engines @ the kernelmode/ring 0/rpl 0 level - clean, fast, & over 44++ yrs. of optimization poured into it over time since 1969. The IP stack loads @ OS startup, thus the hosts file too into RAM for speed, & that makes AdBlock, redundant.
Hosts ARE superior to AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on, listed below in fact.
Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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.) Hosts are EASIER to mana
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"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" (to "Mr. Banner")
Ads steal CPU cycles, RAM, & I/O from a user = electricity bills being higher AND stealing our bandwidth we pay for as well monthly to ISP's to be online, + infecting users with malicious code too (costing again if you don't know how to remove it yourself) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3483769&cid=42979481
?
* "WE ARE NOT YOUR ENEMIES BANNER - TRY TO THINK!" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=advsN-DfY2k
(However- per my original post? You certainly DO prove to be ours though... see links above, & the facts in the 1st one proving my points here!).
ADDITIONALLY & IMPORTANT:
Since you downmod my post of this nature unjustifiably & yet not disproving its facts extolled, here -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3483769&cid=42979855
?
That only shows anyone reading, 1 thing:
Every troll's a nail, & I have the "hammer" for the job (Thor's hammer -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 ), lmao!
(Good video link above - I read that stuff as a kid & am amazed it's being made into multimillion dollar profiting films the past couple decades or so now - lol, helped me make a point above, by "video analogy" too decades later!)
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-line: YOU, have been "hammered", & "nailed" "Mr Banner" (all ca$h-money GREEN & all that, lol)...
Nuked by truth & facts from documented reputable sources & myself in the links above (figureatively & by analogy in the YouTube one, "MR. BANNER" & by facts in the former, and here now also)...
... apk
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My last post was downmodded, unjustifiably
Adblock = INFERIOR to custom hosts files, on SEVERAL levels no less, was all I was trying to show you (& yet I was downmodded)...
Take a read & be enlightened as to EXACTLY why vs. competing "solutions" in Adblock = crippled by default, Ghostery (owned by advertisers - talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse", you'd have to be a REAL 'cluck' to use it knowing that) & yes, even vs.DNS servers (which hosts can actually supplement as well as save complexity, CPU usage, RAM, & other forms of I/O they use, especially if setup as a separate system locally for home users, + thus electricity too)!
Fact is - Custom Hosts files users benefit end users of them by gaining you added speed, security, reliability & even anonymity (to an extent in the latter) also!
This is the tool I designed to generate them for you, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data, in both 32 or 64 bit form for Windows users:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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,
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AdBlock = inferior to custom hosts files
On SEVERAL levels no less - take a read & be enlightened as to EXACTLY why vs. competing "solutions" in Adblock = crippled by default, Ghostery (owned by advertisers - talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse", you'd have to be a REAL 'cluck' to use it knowing that) & yes, even vs. DNS servers (which hosts can actually supplement as well as save complexity, CPU usage, RAM, & other forms of I/O they use, especially if setup as a separate system locally for home users, + thus electricity too)!
Fact is - Custom Hosts files users benefit end users of them by gaining you added speed, security, reliability & even anonymity to an extent also!
This is the tool I designed to generate them for you, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data, in both 32 or 64 bit form for Windows users:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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 (
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When you're Thor's hammer everything's a nail
Whoever downmodded my post unjustifiably got hammered -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3483769&cid=42979481 by the "Thor's Hammer" of FACTS I posted there!
LMAO - Just like in the "video analogy" I used for it @ its termination, lol, here (vs. "Mr. Banner", who's "mo' money green", advertisers) -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=advsN-DfY2k who got EASILY "hammered" by the facts in the 1st link above I posted, which all my 'detractor/naysayer' has is a technically unjustifiable downmod & cannot disprove my facts listed there, validly!
No, instead of validly disproving my points with counter facts, they instead *tried* to vainly & effetely "hide it" via bogus downmods!
Weak...
(Proving that the downmodder of my post clearly cannot validly disprove my points in the 1st link above, the very post I am replying to just to 'drag it back into view', & thus, the same downmodding TROLL cannot justify their bogus downmod of my post - period/fact!)...
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My 'hammer' vs.
Adbanners
Malicious threats online of all kinds such as botnet C&C servers, maliciously scripted websites + adbanners, phishers/spammers/trackers
& more...?
Well - I built it, myself, & it beats the HELL out of any other tool intended to be LIKE it, by a LONG shot & on many levels:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Since custom hosts files provide added:
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1.) Speed (by blocking adbanners & hardcodes of fav. sites)
2.) Security (by blocking adbanners, botnet C&C servers, malicious script on sites & in adbanners, malware serving sites, & other threats online galore)
3.) Reliability (vs. threats noted above, downed or dns poisoned redirected DNS servers)
4.) Even anonymity (to an extent vs. DNS request logs + DNSBL's you may not like too)!
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My program shown above also does all of that, which is more than competing 'solutions' do, & BETTER than:
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A.) AdBlock (crippled by default & hosts do 10 things it NEVER could also)
B.) Ghostery (advertiser owned & tracks you, talk about a "Fox Guarding the Henhouse" since you'd have to be a REAL CLUCK to use it knowing that)
C.) DNS servers (especially those setup locally wasting power & adding complexity over what a TIGHTLY INTEGRATED to the IP stack itself solution offers in custom hosts files!
(Plus, my program populates from 12 valid reputable sources for custom hosts file data!)
It helps DNS, by overcoming their shortcomings (especially via hardcodes which allow you to not have to use them, especially since they remain unpatched for 1/2 a decade++ now vs. the Kaminsky redirection security flaw, especially worst @ THE ISP LEVEL!) AND, also "lightens their load" for DNS server admins too - bonus!
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And, there ya go... you fail, bogusly downmodding trolls!
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-line: You FAIL, troll - since that's the "best you got" vs. facts I posted... & I know it, YOU KNOW IT, & anyone else reading here with 1/2 a brain does also - no questions asked!
... apk
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I do - It's what I do nowadays (see inside)
For YEARS now (first with this unit) -> A Gigabyte IRAM 4gb unit!
It's EXACTLY where I place my pagefile.sys (in Windows), & I noted it here (also noting that it's "iffy" do with ramdrives in the link below, UNLESS you have a "ton" of RAM & especially RAM that does unused).
* See here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3475241&cid=42951835
That's ALL of what I do on a "True SSD" as I call it (well, almost, missed 1 part noted below...).
Thus "mirroring your idea" (my idea too, lol, from a LONG time ago when I used to do it 1st on ramdisks in software, & then later on another "True SSD" from 2000 onwards called a CENATEK "rocketdrive" but it was based on slower PC-133 SDRAM & used a slower bus (PCI 2.2.)).
The Gigabyte IRAM's based on DDR-2 RAM, & also a PCI Express buslane (faster all the way around) BUT, is limited by emulating a SATA disk though (that's where a ramdisk in software 'rocks it', far, Far, FAR faster in the respect - throughput!)).
I omitted this in my list there in the link above:
I also place my custom hosts file onto it, via redirecting WHERE it's referenced by the OS, here in the registry:
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters
And the "DataBasePath" parameter there...
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Which also acts more-or-less, like a *NIX shadow password system also!
(That's good, vs. any malware that *might* attempt to 'mess with it since the original residing in %WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc is pretty much only a 'decoy' @ that point, lol!)
However, modern Windows uses UAC to protect it, & I also apply read-only rights to it to supplement that, & my hosts file import/deduplicate/favorites hardcoder mgt. system I wrote -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 does the rest!
Supplementing UAC, by doing that read-only write protection attribute applied every 1/2 second & NOTHING will 'blow past that' (it's essentially locked that way vs. malicious interlopers!)
Anyhow/anyways: I place mine & all else on that list in the 1st link above onto that "True SSD" as I call it!
Just for faster loading since the seek/access is in the ns range, rather than HardDisk ms ranges!
(That's many orders of magnitude faster, for loading faster into RAM + I let the local kernelmode diskcaching subsystem cache it too, rather than the faulty-with-larger hosts files local DNS clientside cache service in Windows (known issue in it for ages, & MS doesn't fix it - so I said "hell with it" & opted to do it THAT way + I constantly am online, & that KEEPS it there, so the cache doesn't flush it out, by being online nigh constantly)).
APK
P.S.=> And, "There Ya Go" (& 'great minds think alike') - Oh, & I "did some checking" just for my OWN reference, & it appears that 8gb ramsticks are the max size now, & considering you can put usually up to 16gb into current std. mobos, & up to 32gb into server boards? The ramdrive pagefile.sys (or *NIX file analog) IS a possible, IF you don't 'suck that up' for other things, keeping in mind using it JUDICIOUSLY for things you don't WANT flushed by say, a cache (they are volatile's why)...
... apkid=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version
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Thanks for the info.! apk
That only makes MY app I posted, all the more stronger vs. the competition then, provided you are correct, but... more on that below you *MAY* wish to check on & be sure - I've seen hosts with TABS is why!
(However - are you ABSOLUTELY sure it does that with the TAB character? Again - I've seen many hosts files that use that between the IP address & the host-domain name's why I ask!)
* In ANY event, my program "trims out" & replace the TAB many of them utilize, with a SPACE during imports & its "Convert & Filter" stage!
See it here to understand what I mean -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 &
(You'll "get it", & obviously, since YOU clearly understand how hosts files work for the most part it seems, & how to work with them, THUS, you'll understand its interface easily (import custom hosts data, convert & filter, speed up favorites, & then save the newly created custom hosts file... easy as apple pie!))
Enjoy if you elect to try & use it (it's 100% free, no strings attached & NOT malware) - more importantly, good to see you have the good sense to use custom hosts files vs. other less efficient, faulty, bought out & crippled OR owned by advertisers 'solutions' that I listed there in the post you replied to...
It's also 10x smaller, literally, than another 'competitor' in hostsman, & yet, does more too + offers a pure 64-bit build as well as 32 bit too... beat that with a stick!
(Written in the FASTEST Win16/32/64 compiler there is, per tests from a competing trade magazine I can produce in seconds should you wish to see such proofs, & in Borland Delphi XE2 (embarcadero now, not borland, but will ALWAYS be Borland to me)).
APK
P.S.=>
"Hell of a thing to quote" - by Trax3001BBS (2368736) on Monday February 18, @05:30PM (#42939421) Homepage
Well, lol, this is a HELL of a place (By hell, I mean full of trolls - please DO note they already EFFETELY 'downmodded' my post you replied to, with NO disproving my points noted in it either in some puny 'attempt' to vainly "hide" it imo - weak!)...
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"I do use a HOSTS file and appreciate your trying to learn others as well." - by Trax3001BBS (2368736) on Monday February 18, @05:30PM (#42939421) Homepage
THIS *may* come as a 'surprise' to you, but... I know you DO!
How?
Well, when I find others that use them, such as yourself & the parent poster here Gothmolly?? I put them into a text file list to "toss into the faces" of 'naysayer trolls' around here...
(That list is nearing 100 users from
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IMPORTANT:
NOW ONCE MORE- on your 'warning':
Are you 110% sure of that? Again - see above: I've seen hosts that use tabs & so does MS' by default in fact, iirc (I'll check on my roomies' system right now in fact, he backed up the std. default one 3 days ago when he started using the resultant output from my app in the custom hosts it builds is why, so I have reference on that much, give me a sec):
Well, "surprise, surprise" - his Windows 7 rig uses a single space in the ORIGINAL hosts file, but here's an example where TAB is used -> http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5.0/topic/com.qnx.doc.neutrino_utilities/h/hosts.html
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
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"The
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"Twas not I" but "Ask & ye SHALL receive"
Since "I have been summoned" (to 'slum' in the stygian depths of utter nitpicking smouldering HELL that is
Well... that "all said & aside"?? See subject-line above, & this next below!:
To create a custom hosts file, that is "all business" & NO 'bloat', & "automagically"? You can use this (by yours truly, with SOLID undeniable reasons listed in its link WHY you ought to, as the parent poster suggests, & also below as well):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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)
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Read the bold inside especially... apk
Face facts: You wish you were me!
*
Bit of a timeframe here on the topic 32 to 64 bit (& even 16 bit Pascal before that):
That was then (1996) -> http://imagenes.es.sftcdn.net/es/scrn/5000/5384/apk-3dfx-tuning-engine-10.jpg & this -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 is now (2012) - the future, is now!
(LMAO - & you had the nerve to call me stupid, you the off-topic troll here the ENTIRE time, & yet I can show you're an ac "ne'er-do-well" troll, that hasn't done squat on your part by way of comparison to myself & in the programming languages discussed which ARE the topic & base of PhotoShop? Please...)
Thank-You for proving my point & it truly has been a pleasure showing everyone just what YOU are (by letting YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF, lol!) after you called me stupid... lol!
"We see you..."
APK
P.S.=> Duke Nukem & I are in an "exclusive club", I'm an entire chapter in his "Why I'm so Great" book, lol (compared to you), with his directly quoting me verbatim. because you just KNOW I've just GOTTA say it, as-is-per-my-usual, in my own "inimitable style":
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'"...
Why? Well - I'll let these people say so, again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwgnNa0PLWg "We Rock the Party" (we rock the body) - you, clearly don't, troll... See 1st bold statement above, & "Rinse, Lather, & Repeat"!
... apk
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AdBlock = Inferior to custom hosts
"Adblock also greatly improves the performance of browsing the web, especially if you're on a slow network or dialup." -
Not as well as custom hosts files do, 1 of 2 ways:
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A.) By doing what adblock does, but better (since adblock no longer blocks ALL ads by default, they "souled out" imo) - in blocking adbanners (also due to them infesting folks with malicious code, not just for speed gains - See links below for numerous "proofs thereof)
AND
B.) By using "hardcoded favorites entries" which is FASTER than calling out to remote DNS servers since it is locally done by FAR (& the 1st thing your OS loads for online access IS the tcpip.sys file/IP stack & hosts are a simple textfile filter for it, cached into RAM either by the local DNS clientside cache service in Windows, or as I do it, since that service IS 'buggy' with larger hosts files, the local kernelmode diskcaching subsystem - as well as any webbound client programs (browsers, email programs external to browsers like Outlook, Eudora & others adblock does NOT protect there vs. spam/phishing/maliciously scripted HTML mail etc. either) since the 1st thing queried is the hosts file itself, before ANYTHING else, & browser addons + browsers CANNOT determine the IP address resolution by themselves, first).
That's just a sampling - there are also 10++ things custom hosts files do for better speed, security, reliability, & even added anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs + vs. DNSBL's you may NOT agree with as well), that adblock just PLAIN CANNOT DO, that is to YOUR ADVANTAGE as a user of the web!
See below for that list... read on:
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What do I use to populate mine? This (I designed it):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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
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Adblock/Ghostery/DNS = inferior to hosts
"They'll ask me if there's a way to deal with it and I'll point them to Adblock." - by Sycraft-fu (314770) on Wednesday February 13, @08:24PM (#42890843)
1st of all: Adblock does NOT block all ads anymore by default (they ought to call it "almost all ads blocked" nowadays instead, lol)... it's crippled from its former efficacy!
Secondly - Ghostery = ADVERTISER OWNED & tracks you... not good!
Lastly - DNS = riddled with security issues (via the UNPATCHED, mostly WORLDWIDE, Kaminsky bug (redirection dns poisoning) for 1/2 a decade++ now, pure negligence - & WORST OF ALL, @ the ISP LEVEL we all use..).
So - What's better for added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs &/or DNSBLs you may not agree with as well)?
THIS:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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
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"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat"
"There is an "allow unobtrusive adds" feature in ABP which might provide a solution to this dilemma." - by azalin (67640) on Thursday February 14, @03:55AM (#42893501)
See what John Nagle a contributor to the IP stack itself has to say on that note!
(He posts here on
Additionally, some FACTS you ought be aware of:
NewsFlash: AdBlock doesn't block ALL ADS ANYMORE by default (they ought to call it "almost all ads blocked" instead nowadays, lol), for starters.
Ghostery (advertiser owned, "foxes guard the henhouse" yet again & thus, knowing that + what I stated above about AdBlock too? You'd have to be a "cluck" to use it OR adblock, since they've both "souled out"...)
DNS is RIDDLED with security issues out of NEGLIGENCE mainly!
(Especially since most DNS servers worldwide are UNPATCHED vs. the Kaminsky flaw (DNS redirection poisoning) for 1/2 a decade++ now... pure negligence!).
So - What's better on a myriad of levels for YOU the end-user? THIS (and why in detail):
---
APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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 t
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Adblock = inferior to custom hosts
"I think the "allow unobtrusive adds" feature in Adblock plus is a valid way to go." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13, @09:05PM (#42891201)
See what John Nagle a contributor to the IP stack itself has to say on that note!
(He posts here on
Additionally, some FACTS you ought be aware of:
NewsFlash: AdBlock doesn't block ALL ADS ANYMORE by default (they ought to call it "almost all ads blocked" instead nowadays, lol), for starters.
Ghostery (advertiser owned, "foxes guard the henhouse" yet again & thus, knowing that + what I stated above about AdBlock too? You'd have to be a "cluck" to use it OR adblock, since they've both "souled out"...)
DNS is RIDDLED with security issues out of NEGLIGENCE mainly!
(Especially since most DNS servers worldwide are UNPATCHED vs. the Kaminsky flaw (DNS redirection poisoning) for 1/2 a decade++ now... pure negligence!).
So - What's better on a myriad of levels for YOU the end-user? THIS (and why in detail):
---
APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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 m
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Adblock = INFERIOR to custom hosts
"The only real solution is to use adblock" - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13, @09:05PM (#42891201)
NewsFlash: AdBlock doesn't block ALL ADS ANYMORE by default (they ought to call it "almost all ads blocked" instead nowadays, lol), for starters.
Ghostery (advertiser owned, "foxes guard the henhouse" yet again & thus, knowing that + what I stated above about AdBlock too? You'd have to be a "cluck" to use it OR adblock, since they've both "souled out"...)
DNS is RIDDLED with security issues out of NEGLIGENCE mainly!
(Especially since most DNS servers worldwide are UNPATCHED vs. the Kaminsky flaw (DNS redirection poisoning) for 1/2 a decade++ now... pure negligence!).
So - What's better on a myriad of levels for YOU the end-user? THIS (and why in detail):
---
APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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
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Some things to be aware of
TOR & anon. proxies SLOW YOU DOWN all to hell, 1st of all. Secondly, Ghostery = advertiser owned & tracks you by default... Thirdly, AdBlock DOES NOT BLOCK ALL ADS BY DEFAULT ANYMORE (all documented from reputable & reliable sources below):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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.) 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)).
& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!
---
Same with Ghostery:
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FROM ->
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Adblock & Ghostery = inferior to custom hosts
I have NO ISSUE with NoScript though (best addon for FireFox there is imo @ least): HOWEVER - I do with the tools noted in my subject-line above, & here is EXACTLY why (& what I did about it for gratis/100% free, no strings attached) vs.:
A.) Adblock (crippled by default now)
B.) Ghostery (advertiser owned & a tracker itself)
C.) Even DNS servers, especially IF/WHEN run locally on a separate system @ home + setup in recursive mode, which it will HAVE to be so to get data from parent servers & if they're NOT ICANN/Verisign DNSSEC pointed at? You are vulnerable as hell!
(Wasteful as a separate system, or even as a separate service, less wasteful & redundant there though, but still wasteful with its daemons/services & front-ends (in usermode especially) vs. the SINGLE FILE SOLUTION noted below that is part of the IP stack itself, especially since running DNS above & beyond hosts wastes CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O + thus, by derivation, also electricity, costing you more yet again... that, along with NEGLIGENCE in patching it vs. the Kaminsky flaw for 1/2 a decade++ now worldwide MOSTLY, especially @ the ISP level no less (documented from reputable sources below on tha very note no less)):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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 li
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Use the "Good Will Hunting" method then
"Anything that leaves your privacy on the "good will" of the companies is inefficient to protect my privacy." - by stafil (1220982) on Wednesday February 13, @08:09PM (#42890707)
A more efficient, not crippled by default (adblock) & advertiser owned (ghostery) for TRACKING PURPOSES, or riddled with security issues & negligence worldwide (DNS, especially vs. the Kaminsky flaw @ the ISP level remaining unpatched for 1/2 a decade++ currently, details & proof below, to all points noted) method, no less!
(Per my subject-line & that excellent film it references?? It's just plain SMARTER too & NOT subject to the flaws or being "souled out"/bought out as those above are & have been, obviously - & since it references 10++ reputable & reliable sources for custom hosts file data vs. threats of MANY kinds online? Not neglected either - read on!)...
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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'
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Here's a "speedbump" for 'em
In a BAD way, & good one for YOU (in terms of added speed, security, reliability + even anonymity (to an extent)):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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.) 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)).
& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!
---
Same with Ghostery:
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Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company.
They were originally named Better Advertising, Inc., but changed their name for obvious PR reasons.
Despite the name change, let's be clear on on
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TOR/anon. proxies SLOW YOU UP too much
Try this solution instead (Opera or Chromium allow it + hosts files, in combination)!
I state that simply since your methods, though pretty SOUND technically, are complex AND A PAIN to manage for most (if not beyond the 'common end-users' know-how' typically) & again: slow you down all to high heck online too! Just a fact...
However, this methodology + toolset doesn't & actually SPEEDS YOU UP a lot + secures you online in the SAME "stroke"!
Custom hosts + Opera, & iirc more recently Chromium family ones too, in combination - That allow the following via the following EASY & simple means (real "set it & forget it" stuff in fact):
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1.) "By site preferences" for
a.) cookies
b.) scripting
c.) plugins (on demand only, an Opera original)
d.) frames/iframes
e.) & other things that get exploited against you maliciouslyHOW? Easy:
2.) I set a GLOBAL preference for ALL websites first, disabling the above in Opera 12.14 64-bit (excellent by the way & ZERO known security flaws present currently -> http://secunia.com/advisories/product/41248/ )
3.) THEN, I make "exception sites" that MIGHT need cookies &/or javascript for database access, which online banking/shopping/e-commerce sites often DO require, but only as needed (& ONLY what they minimally require for FULL function to facilitate trade there...):
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How/Why?
Well, easy: Custom hosts aid speed, reliability, security, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs + vs. DNSBL's you MAY not like) + cutting off indiscriminate java or javascript usage does the same!
(Additionally, these measures end up complimenting one another in fact for more speed, & security online!)
Period/fact!
Read below as to WHY I utilize custom hosts files for all of those purposes for more speed, security, reliability, & even more anonymity to an extent vs. other advertiser owned (ghostery), crippled by default (adblock), or riddled by security flaws & negligence (DNS) competing "solutions"...
(Anonymity gains are vs. DNS request logs, lightening their load on THEIR end, a bonus for admins of them, no less AND vs. DNSBL you may not agree with as well!).
All, for more efficacy + safety & speed vs. not only adbanners, but also botnet C&C servers, rogue DNS they use too, trackers/spammers/phishers, known maliciously scripted sites, known servers of malware & FAR more...
More efficiently as well (because custom hosts are a TIGHTLY INTEGRATED SOLUTION & native to the IP stack itself solution, AND, they run in ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode as a mere text file easily edited filter via a text editor like notepad if need be even FILTER for it, vs. Ring 3/rpl 3/usermode webbrowsers slowed up even MORE by addons layered onto them (a known issue, stack a few in FireFox & see for yourself)):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now ->
-
Adblock = INFERIOR to custom hosts
"What you left out of that extensive list was malware served up through ad networks. It's not enough to go to "trusted sites" but you have to trust their ad servers too. On one site I still frequent, there was an ad serving up malware for an exploit in Windows." - by bmo (77928) on Wednesday February 13, @08:18PM (#42890791)
Well, then I won't here (big list of evidences of that exist below)... & more, for your reference + that of others (backed by reliable citings from reputable sources)!
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"They have since clamped down on who their ad server is, but after that people installed adblock plus as a security measure." - by bmo (77928) on Wednesday February 13, @08:18PM (#42890791)
Per my subject-line above?
Take a read as to WHY my subject states what it does in regards to adblock inferiority (crippled by default unfortunately now, when it used to NOT be - & backed from reputable sources), & it goes for GHOSTERY (advertiser owned) & even DNS too (security flaw & negligence riddled, especially @ the ISP level no less):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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)
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Supplement that with this
Custom hosts + Opera, & iirc more recently Chromium family ones too, that allow:
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1.) "By site preferences" for
a.) cookies
b.) scripting
c.) plugins (on demand only, an Opera original)
d.) frames/iframes
e.) & other things that get exploited against you maliciouslyHOW? Easy:
2.) I set a GLOBAL preference for ALL websites first, disabling the above in Opera 12.14 64-bit (excellent by the way & ZERO known security flaws present currently -> http://secunia.com/advisories/product/41248/ )
3.) THEN, I make "exception sites" that MIGHT need cookies &/or javascript for database access, which online banking/shopping/e-commerce sites often DO require, but only as needed (& ONLY what they minimally require for FULL function to facilitate trade there...):
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Why?
Read below as to WHY I utilize custom hosts files for all of those purposes for more speed, security, reliability, & even more anonymity to an extent vs. other advertiser owned (ghostery), crippled by default (adblock), or riddled by security flaws & negligence (DNS) competing "solutions"...
(Anonymity gains are vs. DNS request logs, lightening their load on THEIR end, a bonus for admins of them, no less AND vs. DNSBL you may not agree with as well!).
All, for more efficacy + safety & speed vs. not only adbanners, but also botnet C&C servers, rogue DNS they use too, trackers/spammers/phishers, known maliciously scripted sites, known servers of malware & FAR more...
More efficiently as well (because custom hosts are a TIGHTLY INTEGRATED SOLUTION & native to the IP stack itself solution, AND, they run in ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode as a mere text file easily edited filter via a text editor like notepad if need be even FILTER for it, vs. Ring 3/rpl 3/usermode webbrowsers slowed up even MORE by addons layered onto them (a known issue, stack a few in FireFox & see for yourself)):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by defau
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Untrue "the IP stack provideth" (superior way)
"Scriptable browsers are what makes most ad-blocking features work" - by sgunhouse (1050564) on Thursday February 14, @01:56AM (#42892973)
Per my subject-line above: Here is that more efficient/less redundant FASTER way to do the job of stopping not only trackers, adbanners, botnet C&C servers, bogus DNS they use, spammers/phishers, known malware serving sites + maliciously scripted sites too, & more!
All of which rob you of your monies via taking speed/bandwidth you paid your ISP for monthly out of pocket since they take up, on average, 40% of the "mass" of what you download from a website to view its pages, & CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O as well - meaning adbanners also cost you in terms of electricity bills raised as well!
If not taking your monies & time since they infest/infect you with malicious code also (plenty of evidence of that is below as well from reputable sites)...
(The program below operates right from when your IP stack loads @ OS startup, &/or 1st request to the web from webbound clients of ALL kinds (Windows + MacOS X) - AND, in not just webbrowsers, but also for example, email programs, if an external program, like Outlook/Outlook Express, eudora & others too since the 1st thing requested IS the hosts file for IP address resolution from host-domain names).
The application solution below is MORE efficient since it doesn't use redundant and yes, advertiser owned or crippled by default browser addons!
Yes, there's proof of that below too... unbelievable as it seems... read on!
For starters:
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1.) Addons slowdown browsers even more!
(Fact: stack up a few FF addons & see what happens... it's a KNOWN issue!).
2.) A custom hosts file also operates @ a far, Far, FAR faster & more efficient layer of operations too (ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode vs. browser in ring 3/rpl 3/usermode, being slowed down EVEN MORE by layering in addons - which wouldn't be SO BAD, if they weren't advertiser owned OR crippled by default... see below on that very note!).
3.) It also is TIGHTLY INTEGRATED as part of the IP stack itself, that has over 44++ yrs. of security & speed refinement put into it, written in C & Assembly code (far faster than browser addons like Adblock written in slower javascript, python or perl, & layered in over an already slower usermode app as far as webbound client programs go).
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This loads it for you, from 10++ reputable & reliable sites for custom hosts file data vs. threats of all kinds online:
APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them
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GHOSTERY = ADVERTISER OWNED!
Per my subject-line above: It's a "fox guarding the henhouse" & you'd have to be a 'CLUCK' to use it after knowing that (no offense intended, you *MAY* not be aware of what's listed below is why), in other words!
(Especially vs. this solution which is FAR superior technically, & in efficiency as well) - evidence of that is below:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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.) 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)).
& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!
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Same with Ghostery:
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Ghostery = ADVERTISER OWNED
Per my subject-line above: It's a "fox guarding the henhouse" & you'd have to be a 'CLUCK' to use it after knowing that (no offense intended, you *MAY* not be aware of what's listed below is why), in other words!
(Especially vs. this solution which is FAR superior technically, & in efficiency as well) - evidence of that is below:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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.) 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)).
& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!
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Same with Ghostery:
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More evidence & a BETTER method by far
As to advertiser b.s. & also "solutions" vs. it (advertisers owned (ghostery), or crippled by default (adblock), or full of security issues (DNS)):
Per my subject-line above:
I created a solution vs. trackers & FAR more that is malicious to end-users/consumers of website data - vs. botnet C&C servers, trackers, spammers, phishers, maliciously coded scripts on sites & yes, in adbanners (tons of evidences of that over time are listed below for your reference & that of others)...
A solution that is far MORE efficient than competing 'solutions' that are either advertiser OWNED, or crippled by default, in browser addons, no less & even over DNS servers, which custom hosts, the end result of the program below, can actually supplement & reinforce on a NUMBER of levels no less!
(Most DNS servers worldwide, especially worst @ the ISP level, remain unpatched for 1/2 a decade vs. the Kaminsky redirection dns-poisoning flaw, see link below for proof, when setup in recursive mode especially & MOST are, & have to be).
It's more efficient than browser addons OR even DNS servers in usermode, since it operates in Ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode as a native TIGHTLY INTEGRATED part of the IP stack itself! The IP stack has over 44++ yrs. of refinement & optimization poured into it also... for efficiencies' sake as well as for security too!
(Which is far, Far, FAR faster & more efficient via tcpip.sys itself in kernelmode & loads as your OS does + fully on 1st request by web-bound client programs, which makes things like Adblock or Ghostery REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL in fact because of that very fact!)
It's better overall, vs. browser addons layering in over already SLOWER webbrowsers running in usermode/ring 3/rpl 3, & addons end up even slowing them down even more!
(TEST - Stack up a few addons in FireFox, see what I mean on that account - it is a KNOWN issue with browser addons in messagepassing alone (even if "in process"))
&
The program builds up a simple easily edited single-file solution that's TRULY "universal" & to ANY OS that runs a BSD-derived IP stack (most all, if not ALL today, do), including smartphones (might have to run a DosToUnix converter on it IF you import it from Windows though)).
Fact is - I kept it to myself 2003-2012, & I had it done before competitors did, long before...
I did so since I was NOT out to harm websites mainly who draw revenues from adbanners, & thus/again - I kept it to myself, that is, until adbanners began to show malicious script (see lists below)!
&
Also the fact ADBANNERS SUCK UP UP TO 40% OF AN AVERAGE WEBPAGE DOWNLOAD in mass sent/received, as well as CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O also, that you pay for in electricity AND your monthly bill to your ISP for online access!
(Thus, ads steal your bandwidth/speed YOU PAY FOR, in other words, as well as infesting you!)
However: The "explosion" of malware-in-general made me release it "to the masses"... mostly!
(From bad scripts, bad adbanners, malware servers, botnets etc./et al)
That happened mostly 2005 onwards imo since I've built up a custom hosts file here since 1997 & have a pretty GOOD idea when it really "kicked into gear" as to exploits in general online REALLY starting up more!
That prompted its release from me to the "general public", as well as adbanners themselves HOUSING MALICIOUS SCRIPT (last link @ the bottom of this post SHOULD interest you on that very note in fact...)):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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Browser addons information for you
They're INFERIOR to custom hosts files in efficiency, ability, & are REDUNDANT!
(How/when/where/ & WHY most importantly are listed below, with backing evidences from reputable sources...):
"no one is going to stop me from using Adblock, NoScript, DoNotTrackMe, etc. or similar tools. I don't trust these crooked fucks to even follow the law, so privacy extensions aren't going anywhere." - by UltraZelda64 (2309504) on Wednesday February 13, @08:28PM (#42890873)
NoScript's FINE (I have NO issue/problem with it, best addon for FireFox there is under the sun imo, in fact)... however:
I do take issue with AdBlock (& also Ghostery) + even DNS... & why:
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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
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Agreed & more data for you (+ more)... apk
"What a surprise: sleazy advertisers remain sleazy." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13, @08:46PM (#42891035)
A lot of data on that note is below from reputable sources & a program I designed back in late 2003 that I kept to myself until mid last year/2012! Use it in other articles you may write later on this very subject (and the program is 100% free no strings attached should you elect to try it as well to use it also)...
You seem to be as "into it" on this note, as I am (almost, you'll see what I mean in the program below). I went & DID SOMETHING about it, for others that they can literally use & yes, it works better than anything else does for that purpose!
(Kept it to myself, & I had it done before competitors did, long before... however, since I was NOT out to harm websites mainly who draw revenues from adbanners, I kept it to myself - until adbanners began to show malicious script (see lists below))!
&
Also the fact ADBANNERS SUCK UP UP TO 40% OF AN AVERAGE WEBPAGE DOWNLOAD in mass sent/received, as well as CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O also, that you pay for in electricity AND your monthly bill to your ISP for online access!
(Thus, ads steal your bandwidth/speed YOU PAY FOR, in other words, as well as infesting you!)
However: The "explosion" of malware-in-general made me release it "to the masses"...
(From bad scripts, bad adbanners, malware servers, botnets etc./et al)
That happened mostly 2005 onwards imo since I've built up a custom hosts file here since 1997 & have a pretty GOOD idea when it really "kicked into gear" as to exploits in general online REALLY starting up more!
That prompted its release from me to the "general public", as well as adbanners themselves HOUSING MALICIOUS SCRIPT (last link @ the bottom of this post SHOULD interest you on that very note in fact...)).
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"Here's something that I wrote in 2010 on the subject:" - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13, @08:46PM (#42891035)
Here's something I wrote in a program that DOES something about it, & at a more efficient level!
(Ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode via a TIGHTLY INTEGRATED native part of the IP stack itself, the hosts file, vs. ring 3/rpl 3/usermode browser addons & even DNS servers (the former are KNOWN to slow down webbrowsers too - stack up a few in FireFox & see what I mean...)):
---APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST
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Reconsider that (ads CAN & DO infect you)
Per my subject-line above: See the list of evidences of that over time, listed below...
And?
Witness this program below, since it is a both TECHNICALLY SUPERIOR method of blocking vs. browser addons & more efficient also!
(Since browser addons for that purposed noted below run in already SLOWER ring 3/rpl 3/usermode, vs. hosts being part of tcpip.sys/IP stack & merely a filter for it, running via device driver ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode too... far, Far, FAR FASTER, & addons slowup webbrowsers (known fact, stack up a few in FireFox for example, & see))!
This program below I designed simply builds up what is a NATIVE TIGHTLY INTEGRATED PART OF THE IP STACK ITSELF UP vs. adbanners (& other threats online such as known maliciously scripted sites/servers/hosts-domains, vs. botnets + their C&C Servers & bogus DNS servers & more...) from 10++ reputable & reliable sources for custom hosts file data!
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
---
Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
---
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
---
Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, 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 y
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Something that works WITH Proxomitron
Per my subject-line above, custom hosts files = superior to browser addons!
(Since hosts are a TIGHTLY INTEGRATED native part of the IP stack itself, running in Ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode, vs. layering ontop of far, Far, FAR SLOWER Ring 3/rpl 3/usermode browsers, slowing them down even more (known issue, stack a few FF addons up, & see for yourself))!
In fact, Proxomitron is 1 of the FEW tools like it that actually works WELL with custom hosts files that I know of!
HOWEVER: Proxomitron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxomitron bills itself as "the universal filter"... it's NOT AS UNIVERSAL AS CUSTOM HOSTS FILES ARE!
(Which again, are part of ANY OS' IP stack that's based on the BSD original & most all today, if not all, ARE based on it - even on smartphones, & does Proxomitron run on those? Not afaik... hosts, can & do (may have to run a DosToUnix utility over them IF you import them from Windows (ASCII vs. EBCIDIC & other issues are overcome that way), but that's about it for complexity of import/export)):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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
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AdBlock = inferior to custom hosts
"Sadly, I have "real intelligence" when a large enough to be profitable portion of the words population don't" - by Omestes (471991) on Thursday February 14, @02:21AM (#42893107) Homepage
Sadly, you're wrong (per my subject-line above) since AdBlock doesn't block all ads anymore, by default (& can't do 10++ things custom hosts files can, listed below) - same goes for Ghostery & even DNS servers!
Additionally: I hate doing this too, but it's "doesn't" in that case per your quoted words above, not "don't" in that turn of a phrase (grammar picking yes, sorry - ordinarily I don't do that, as it is off-topic, but it fits here!).
THIS creates that custom hosts file I note from 10++ reputable & reliable sources, "automagically":
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...
"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"
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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...
Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA
That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!
(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!
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Plus, Adblock 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).
To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:
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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
