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Online Ads Are More Dangerous Than Porn, Cisco Says
wiredmikey writes "The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier and shadier behavior online, but that apparently isn't the case, Cisco found in its 2013 Annual Security report. It can be more dangerous to click on an online advertisement than an adult content site these days, according to Cisco. For example, users clicking on online ads were 182 times more likely to wind up getting infected with malware than if they'd surfed over to an adult content site, Cisco said. The highest concentration of online security targets do not target pornography, pharmaceutical, or gambling sites as much as they affect legitimate sites such as search engines, online retailers, and social media. Users are 21 times more likely to get hit with malware from online shopping sites and 27 more times likely with a search engine than if they'd gone to a counterfeit software site, according to Cisco's report (PDF). There is an overwhelming perception that people get compromised for 'going to dumb sites,' Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at Cisco, told SecurityWeek."
The summary, and the Security Week article, write that "Users are more 21 times more likely to get hit with malware from online shopping sites than if they'd gone to a counterfeit software site".
Cisco's report says that "Online shopping sites are 21 times more likely to deliver malicious content than counterfeit software sites."
Those statements are not equivalent. Online shopping sites have many more visitors than counterfeit software sites, so they have more opportunity to deliver malware. The same goes for the factor of 27 for search engines.
Also, it's hard to check the factor of 182 for adult sites, since the report doesn't include that number, or in fact even the words "porn" or "adult".
there is an overwhelming perception that people get compromised for 'going to dumb sites,
Like this one? http://homestore.cisco.com/en-us.htm
The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier ... behavior online
So security risks don't increase as I engage in risky behavior? How does that even work? If something doesn't increase risk, then it isn't risky. I can start downloading and executing everything I see without increasing security risks?
It has been known for a long time that ads are a primary malware vector, this is the reason many sane people block them.
Well thats what I heard...from a friend...he doesn't have that many accounts...
I've noticed similar shadyness with Google ads and just about all "sponsored content" you see on websites. You see the bullshit tags like "Doctors angered at woman's self treatment" or links to sites that seem to do nothing more than try to scare you to invest. The internet is full of bullshit. Somehow, for some reason Google is one of the richest companies in the world because of it. I'd like to know, who actually clicks on this shit.
Let's get rid of online ads then.
...are online porn ads the greatest threat?
Glad I block ads...
You're not allowed to criticize Google on Slashdot.
Even though their entire business plan is to rape your privacy for every penny they can squeeze out of it.
It is long known that ads may contain malicious parts - especially bits of javascript. It happened before that major ad servers got compromised, it will happen again. I recall reports that some ads were trying to infect an unsuspecting user directly, and such ads are displayed on sites all over the place, including personal blogs and lolcat sites.
When clicking an ad you don't really know which site you're going to be sent to. When visiting a porn or a warez site, you normally go there intentionally. Those sites are considered risky (especially the free ones - that use free porn/software to attract visitors - and somehow still have a desire to generate income), so many visitors will be more vigilant and may take extra precautions even.
And ads will likely have a greater reach. I think it's safe to assume that many more people visit general sites with ads, than visit porn/warez sites. Greater chance to find a vulnerable system. More chance for someone to (accidentally) click the ad, and have them redirected to a malware site.
The only somewhat surprising part is where online shopping sites are named as a major source of infection. Those sites have a reputation to keep up, or they will lose business. And as they are shopping sites, their income comes from direct sales, so there is no need to display third-party ads for revenue.
I didn't really want to visit the porn site, but that I had to, so that I wouldn't get my computer infected....
Why should I have to be penalized more than someone else just because I like to see a little of the sexy time now and again?
Hopefully these goody-two-shoes who never peruse the prurient will finally unpucker their assholes and live more like me. That is to say, the right way.
Most sites that are tring to get you to pay to use the site do seem take the security pretty seriously. They know that they have to deliver a better user experience then the "free" sites that have piles of full of stolen content. I've been awakened at 2AM more then once by an adult site webmaster who wants an infection cleaned up NOW and the site locked down so tight the crackers will never infect it again.
A lot of the free sites are nothing but stolen content. You can recognize those because they don't link each pic or video to the source pay site. When you see they aren't linking to the site it came from, you know they are crooks. Crooks, by definition, are more likely to do something nasty to you.
next week cisco unveils a new enterprise-caliber ad-scrubbing internet gateway...
Seriously, what year is this? If websites can still drop an executable onto a users machine with nothing more than a drive-by then clearly the problem is much more than just a question of ads of no ads. Why do operating systems and browsers still suck?
This was always my response to the 'it is immoral to block ads' argument. I always said that if blah.com is hosting the ads itself I would be willing to allow them but as long as the content is from some unknown domain that I haven't chosen to trust, forget about it.
This posting is provided 'AS IS' without warranty of any kind, implied or otherwise.
APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
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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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
I consider "Adblock" and similar browser and computer add-ons to be *security* tools as much as bandwidth and other management.
Since the first time I noted browser exploits coming across common news and sales sites, I realized that the current model requires not trust of the sites we visit, but of the advertiser's sites... you know, like google and double-click and the others. I don't want to trust "unknowns" and so I block them unless I need them unblocked for access.
Can I be a beta tester for the adult site testing?
Take a read -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
Here's how/why/when/where too specifically:
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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* :)
APK
P.S.=> Custom hosts files are FAR superior to AdBlock (which should be called "almost all ads blocked" by default, now... what a shame - they 'souled out', along with Ghostery (owned by Evidon advertisers, talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse"))...
... apk
Take a read -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
Here's how/why/when/where too specifically:
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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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* :)
APK
P.S.=> Custom hosts files are FAR superior to AdBlock (which should be called "almost all ads blocked" by default, per the linked article above... what a shame - they 'souled out', along with Ghostery (owned by Evidon advertisers, talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse"))...
... apk
Actual context sensitive Google ads that I was too terrified to click on:
"Ball lightning: Browse a huge selection now. Find exactly what you want today."
"Ann Coulter Ringtone! Send this ringtone to your phone right now!"
Made me toss my browser cookies it did. After you toss your cookies these things stop for awhile, then build once again to a crescendo. Lately I have been getting ads with garden gnomes leering suggestively.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
To AdBlock, Ghostery & other 'competing solutions' -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
Which AdBlock no longer blocks all ads by default & Ghostery is OWNED BY ADVERTISERS...
Talk about being 'souled out' & having 'foxes guard your henhouse' with those 2!
DNS is chock full of security vulnerabilities too!
(One being that it is unpatched a 1/2 decade later vs. the Kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw -> http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/1859257/5-years-after-major-dns-flaw-found-few-us-companies-have-deployed-long-term-fix too, along with MANY others - if you want a list? "Ask & ye shall receive"...)
AND
Yes - That's the case, & worldwide in MOSTLY ALL OF THE DNS SERVES OUT THERE, no less, the majority of them!
(Worst of all, @ the ISP level no less, as well as in businesses etc.)
APK
P.S.=> Which is WHY I designed that app - PLUS, it does a lot more for you than those competing solutions I noted above, AND?
It actually supplements DNS by bypassing it safely to overcome that flaw & others!
(By using reverse DNS hardcoded entries to the in arpa addr 'tld' that houses that information from the DNSSEC root 13 servers - which are secured vs. that flaw noted above in redirect poisonings & others)
... apk
So, no original content is ever produced? Or do sites now have to link back to themselves, for their content to be not stolen?
Original content, professional style porrn, is produced by people who want to get their investment back, not by charities giving it away for free. Professional style content is not produced FOR FREE, 99.9999% of the time.
Also, your statement presumes that all porn is produced for pay.
Pre-sume is to decide before you have the relevant information. That's the PRE part of PREsume. I do happen to have the information, so it's not a presumption, it's an observation after a fifteen year career in online porn. The person making statements about how the porn industry works, but who has never been in the porn industry is the one doing the presuming.
If your statement had been about software instead of porn, you would have just declared Linux and FreeBSD illegal.
If your statement was about about pizza, you would have been talking about pepperoni. Yeah, if I had said something completely different, I would have been saying something different. I produce free software. I don't produce free porn. I have produced paid porn. (and paid software used by 35% of paid porn sites).
(Double checking that I clicked "post anonymously".)
They're the "best you've got" instead of disproving this -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269 and the points I listed there, with concrete, verifiable, & UNDENIABLE documentation from reputable sources too, no less!
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(I know it, YOU KNOW IT, & you show it by doing a "hit & run" downmod with no valid critique & disproving of the points I posted - you only show others that, & they CAN read, you know, & will know it too IF they don't already!)
Seriously - your unjustifiable downmods = weak!
How?
In *trying* in vain, to "hide" my post thus with hit & run downmods...)
That won't work either - As most folks here browse FAR below the default level to see all posts, & rightfully so!
(Especially since the "so-called 'moderation system'" here is busted, & hides AC posts like mine by default... "gosh, I wonder WHY?" (lol, NOT)).
The link to my program lists all of what custom hosts files can do for an end-user of them in better speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent + a LOT more!
(Like actually getting you MORE FOR YOUR MONEY's WORTH in what you pay out monthly to ISP's -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 in that download link for it!)
There is NO 'hiding' that or *trying* to, via unjustifiable downmods, is there? I also certainly do NOT see others disproving my points either... lol!
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-line: 1st of all, to whoever downmodded me & ran (not even disproving my points on custom hosts files' superiority over other flawed or crippled methods?)
Thanks, actually!
Secondly - Thanks for proving my point, AND MY PREDICTION of an "instant downmod" of my post regarding custom hosts files too, as I knew it would be and WHY -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
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PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"Now - I truly KNOW this post will no doubt be downmodded, because Advertisers do NOT want this type of information getting out en-masse to enlighten users - they bought out Ghostery, crippled Adblock, but TRY THAT with a local hosts file (good luck!) especially one a user builds himself!" - http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
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Since you show us "that's the 'best you've got'" & nothing more, lol...
However - Anyone with 1/2 a brain realizes that bogus downmods aren't justifiable when my points are solid & correct + backed by citations & documentations from reputable sources and yes, facts!
(And, they are invalid in your bogus downmods since you show us that much, downmodding troll, via your 'hit & run downmod'... period, lol!).
Custom hosts files show their superiority over other methods by:
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1.) Gaining you added speed you PAID for & are losing, to the tune of 40% of most webpages on average due to adbanners bulk, processing required, & being bushwhacked per this article too no less!
(and for your monies you pay out to ISPs monthly, by getting more bandwidth instead of 40% of your webpages clotted & slowed down by adbanners)
2.) Added security (blocking out known malicious threats online)
3.) Added reliability (over DNS servers, unpatched for 1/2 a decade vs. the Kaminsky redirect flaw no less MOSTLY WORLDWIDE (except the root 13 DNSS
Take a read & for money I pay out to ISP's (like you) -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
* :)
APK
P.S.=> Enjoy the program, and the resulting custom hosts file it creates!
Created for you from reputable sources online for that data, it works (vs. this & many other issues online vs. malicious threats + more as noted above in what you pay out monthly to ISP's for online access), and for more & BETTER:
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SPEED:
By blocking out adbanners (malicious or not, but for security blocking them's good & for speed, it unquestionably is, since they are usually on avg. 40% of the bulk/mass of what you browse, AND, eat up CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O in processing them - not to mention they ARE many times 'bushwhacked' with bogus malicious code per this article)!
&
By doing locally resolved host-domain names, vs. remote DNS returns (which can be redirected poisoned, or even be downed DNS servers).
and more...
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SECURITY:
Vs. malicious script housing adbanners, hosts domains, & even malware housing sites!
It also actually supplements DNS by bypassing it, & VERY safely via your fav. sites hardcoded in your custom hosts file too!
(Resulting in security AND in saving your bandwidth & giving you FASTER host-domain name resolution locally vs. remote DNS servers, especially if a NXDOMAIN results since you do it LOCALLY via verified hardcoded hosts file entries of your favorites, which also gets you speed too as noted), simply to overcome that flaw & others!
Hosts files hardcodes are not only faster, but safer too, simply since my program uses reverse DNS hardcoded entries tests, to the in arpa addr 'tld' that houses that information from the DNSSEC root 13 servers - which are secured vs. that flaw noted above in redirect poisonings & others)
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BETTER "ANONYMITY":
To an extent, vs. DNS request logs, & the ability to bypass what you may feel are unjust blocks @ the level via being able to bypass DNS as shown above for security & speed, but also DNSBL's (dns block lists) you MAY not agree with...
... apk
As well as gaining you superior speed, security, reliability, & even "anonymity" to an extent (vs. DNS request logs, & yes, the ability to bypass DNSBL's (dns block lists) you may not agree with too):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
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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Vs. even DNS servers too (which hosts files can supplement to overcome THEIR shortcomings, as follows):
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A.) Running another program (sometimes in usermode no less, far, Far, FAR slower than kernelmode by many orders of magnitude & easily attacked) vs. the single hosts file (tightly integrated into the IP stack itself as part of it). ADDING COMPLEXITY & MORE "moving parts" room for error & breakdown!
B.) Wasting CPU cycles, RAM memory, & other forms of I/O to do what a single file can do
C.) Wasting ELECTRICITY (especially if the DNS server is setup as a separate machine) even if run as a service/daemon on a single system as user has
D.) DNS has NUMEROUS faults, & should anyone request a sampling of them? Ask & "ye shall receive" (see my 'p.s.' below...).
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Resulting in security AND in saving your bandwidth & giving you FASTER host-domain name resolution locally vs. remote DNS servers, especially if a NXDOMAIN results!
Since you do it LOCALLY via verified hardcoded hosts file entries of your favorites, which also gets you speed too as noted), simply to overcome that flaw & others!
Hosts files hardcodes are not only faster, but safer too, simply since my program uses reverse DNS hardcoded entries tests, to the in arpa addr 'tld' that houses that information from the DNSSEC root 13 servers - which are secured vs. that flaw noted above in redirect poisonings (& others)
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AND, 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/usermo
The highest concentration of online security targets do not target pornography, pharmaceutical, or gambling sites as much as they affect legitimate sites such as search engines, online retailers, and social media.
Just wondering, who exactly draws the line to decide which website is legitmate or not?
"Please stop with the long, self-advertising posts." - by nickybio (1458399) on Friday February 01, @12:07PM (#42762299)
See subject-line above: "Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" till it 'sinks in' for you, troll... by the way: I do NOT take YOUR orders either, get it?
"Onwards & Upwards", do read on...
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"There's no doubt you are amazing and should start your own blog." - by nickybio (1458399) on Friday February 01, @12:07PM (#42762299)
Thank-You: Obviously, you're not since you didn't disprove my points in my post you responded to completely off-topic... lol!
However:
ANYONE, with a spine & some programming know-how, clearly unlike you @ this point so far @ least, can be out there "doing the right thing" as I have!
Additionally - With an excellent ware that does EXACTLY what I stated it does for you!
Especially over faulty solutions like DNS alone, or browser addons like AdBlock + Ghostery!
(Yes - I can state that, & validly, since I don't see you disproving my points on DNS' faults & how custom hosts files overcome them)
No - instead, you're an off-topic troll!
An off-topic troll that I also additionally wager hasn't done the same & is merely a forums "ne'er-do-well" that hasn't contributed a FRACTION of what I have over time in the art & science of computing!
(And, to good note in commercial software also, not just freeware like the above, freeware/shareware, highly esteemed trade show showings, & far more in respected written publications in the art & science of computing - That I did while I would guess were done before you were BREATHING even, or, still in DIAPERS, boy...)
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Get on topic, perhaps above all else - you FAIL, and rather badly, for all the reasons noted above... period!
... apk
Isn't this an advert for some cisco snakeoil?
The message is clear. You should only look at porn.
See subject-line above: Do you have 1,928,714++ entries & growing in your custom hosts file? If so, good luck deduplicating/normalizing + filtering out invalid or harmful entries (mostly CDN's for big sites like AMAZON or EBay for instance) from it.
Thus, you aren't using as efficient a host file as is possible - my program allows that, & does so from a dozen or so REPUTABLE & RELIABLE SOURCES for custom hosts file data.
AND, if you don't? You aren't as well protected as I am via that program... period!
* :)
Thus? You FAIL, for all the reasons noted above!
However, you DO have 1 'saving grace'/'redeeming feature' apparently - you have the good sense to utilize custom hosts files for more speed, security, reliability & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNSBL &/or DNS request logs)...
APK
P.S.=> Now, you all just KNOW I've just GOTTA say it, as-is-per-my-usual "inimitable style", especially vs. "ne'er-do-well" naysayers when I level them with FACTS as shown above:
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & always is, vs. naysayer trolls...
... apk
Does this mean the safest part of the internet is /b/ ??
See subject-line: TRY disprove my points instead -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760847
GOOD LUCK: Seriously - you'd NEED It vs. facts extolled there... & truth is truth, facts are facts - period!
100's of naysayer trolls have *tried* over time, each has failed... lol, yes & I love it!
* QUITE CLEARLY since all you had was an unjustifiable downmod & nothing more, by NOT disproving facts I enumerated in favor of custom hosts files over AdBlock, doing anything more than a weak downmod with no backing is all you have!
Disproving my points?
It is IMPOSSIBLE for you, to whoever "hit & run" downmodded my post that merely states indisputable facts!
(Thanks for making ME look GOOD on that very account!)
APK
P.S.=> Yes folks - ...
Especially on custom hosts files' value to end-users of them!
Yes, when the 'trolls' around here show us "the best they got" is vainly *trying* to "hide" my posts on custom hosts files' value on a plethora of levels in myriad ways in added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs, & DNSBL's) is all they have!
Hosts are clearly SUPERIOR over inferior OR faulty solutions like AdBlock/Ghostery (crippled + advertiser owned, respectively)!
Same with DNS alone!
(Which custom hosts actually safely supplement, outdo in speed of resolution, & are COMPLETELY end-user controlled too - bonus, security, reliability, & even anonymity benefits + overcoming their faults as well)
... apk
Would the risks cancel each other out?
Gently reply
You can't can you? Obviously not vs. what I posted -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667
* :)
(Plus, face facts: ALL the off-topic illogical 'trolling' in the WORLD doesn't make you look better for it, by-the-by, but it does ME... since you are helpless vs. facts & your immature effete trolling can't change that fact - period!)
It's also obvious that since you resort to AC trollling posts, you're probably the fool vainly *trying* to "hide my posts" via unjustifiable downmods but not disproving my points + facts listed in it -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
Especially my initial one in THAT link above! It merely exemplifies my points, & yes, I predicted that would happen in its content as well just prior to my 'p.s.'... lol!
Amazing that (not).
(Points on Custom hosts' superiority on MANY levels, especially vs. AdBlock/Ghostery especially which are absolutely crippled by default + advertiser owned respectively - talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse" & only an UTTER FOOL would use them since that IS the case with them both now, unfortunately!)
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Hey: I know it, YOU KNOW IT, & anyone else reading here with 1/2 a brain does also since you have to resort to "ac trolling"!
So - Thanks for making me LOOK GOOD, & yourself "not so good" by way of comparison, @ least, & on that very account, troll!
... apk
If your responses weren't canned and also formatted in such a way that you believe your target audience is capable of no thought then you might not get modded down so much.
Really your comments look like something an adman on bath salts would come up with, you are two bolded sentences away from being the Time Cube guy.
Relax, just provide a place for people to start, or if you want to provide more information a single link to a guide will suffice. Oh, and you really should just go back to using an actual account instead of AC.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
On custom hosts files' ability to overcome DNS faults -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667
As well as supplementing DNS for better speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity, to an extent (vs. DNS request logs + DNSBL's too)...
* Where, quite clearly, you show us that all "you & yours" HAVE is effete technically unjustifiable "hit & run" downmods vs. my points enumerated there in the link above, on custom hosts files' clear superiority over DNS alone... & yes - Other 'solutions' as well
(Especially AdBlock & Ghostery - crippled by DEFAULT in the former, & advertiser owned in the latter... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse" & only an utter FOOL would use them now because of those facts!)
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Don't even *try* to tell me that since you posted you could not have downmodded my post either!
Since it is ENTIRELY easily doable since the "so-called 'moderation system'" here is easily bypassed by downmodding via your registered account, logging out to preserve cookie state, & then trolling by AC posts - which IS going on along with unjustifiable downmods of my posts here too)
... apk
DNS fans FAIL vs. hosts overcoming DNS faults -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667
As well as supplementing DNS for better speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity, to an extent (vs. DNS request logs + DNSBL's too)...
* Where, quite clearly, you show us that all "you & yours" HAVE is effete technically unjustifiable "hit & run" downmods only, which FAIL vs. my points enumerated there in the link above, on custom hosts files' clear superiority over DNS alone...
Additionally/ALSO - vs. other 'solutions' as well!
(Custom hosts are superior - Especially vs. AdBlock & Ghostery - which ARE crippled by DEFAULT in the former, & advertiser owned in the latter... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse" & only an utter FOOL would use them now because of those facts!)
As well as downmoderating my post I just replied to in order to pull it back into view, stymying your efforts, easily (lol).
Bottom-line: You fail, trolls & all you have is effete technically unjustifiable downmods vs. computing facts I posted in my posts on custom hosts files, in order to *try* to vainly "hide" those facts from others (won't work, most here browse below the default view of /.'s forums on AC posts especially)... lmao!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Don't even *try* to tell me that since you posted you could not have downmodded my post even if you posted with a "registered 'luser'" account, either!
Since it is ENTIRELY easily doable since the "so-called 'moderation system'" here is easily bypassed by downmodding via your registered account, logging out to preserve cookie state, & then trolling by AC posts - which IS going on along with unjustifiable downmods of my posts here too) - or, more "nefariously" & weasel-like, as trolls are "wont to do" & be?
Using multiple registered trolling accounts to do so...
... apk
"If your responses weren't canned and also formatted in such a way that you believe your target audience is capable of no thought then you might not get modded down so much." - by Jeng (926980) on Friday February 01, @01:08PM (#42762995)
See subject-line "Argue w/ the numbers" in upmods of mine vs. your 'sentiments', off topic as they are!
"EAT YOUR WORDS", flavored with the "bitter taste of SELF-DEFEAT" & your FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH, vs. the orders of magnitude difference in your /. peers vs. you below... lol!
(Especially with the starting ones on custom hosts files' value on MULTIPLE LEVELS, in added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent (vs. DNS request logs, & DNSBL)):
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Roughly 243++ of them & I post as AC (hard to get even +1, as /. hides our posts & we "AC"'s start @ ZERO/0 points, unlike registered "lusers", lol!):
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* THE HOSTS FILE GROUP 41++ THUSFAR (from +5 -> +1 RATINGS, usually "informative" or "interesting" etc./et al):
APPLYING HOSTS TO DIFF. PLATFORM W/ TCP-IP STACK BASED ON BSD: 2008 -> http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1944892&cid=34831038
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1490078&cid=30555632
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1461288&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=30272074
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1255487&cid=28197285
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1206409&cid=27661983
0.0.0.0 in HOSTS:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1197039&cid=27556999
0.0.0.0 IN HOSTS:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1143349&cid=27012231
0.0.0.0 in HOSTS:2009 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1198841&cid=27580299
0.0.0.0 in HOSTS:2009 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139705&cid=26977225
HOSTS MOD UP:2009 -> http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1319261&cid=28872833 (still says INSIGHTFUL)
APK 20++ POINTS ON HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1913212&cid=34576182
HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1869638&cid=34237268
HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1907266&cid=34529608
HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1725068&cid=32960808
HOSTS MOD UP:2010 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1743902&cid=33147274
HOSTS MOD UP:2010 ->
Trying to vainly "hide" my post with bogus unjustifiable downmods -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761279
* :)
Won't work trolls...
Why? Well - too many folks, if NOT most here in fact, browse below the bogus default /. has on ac posts!
(A default that *tries* to hide ac posts like mine in that alone from people's view)...
No - Folks'll see it regardless!
Then when you do your downmods to vainly *try* to "hide" my posts?
Well - I simply merely drag them back into view by replying to them... that's all!
AND
Then, the most FUN part of all, is to watch you "run, forrest - RUN!!!" when you can't disprove facts & points I enumerated in the link above!
Fact!
You fail, trolls... badly, on ALL accounts I just noted: I know it, YOU KNOW IT, & anyone reading with 1/2 a brain even knows it!
APK
P.S.=> "Onwards & upwards"...
... apk... that's all!
AND
Then, the most FUN part of all, is to
See here, "Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42762573
* :)
Additionally, of course, making you "double-fail" on more than just those facts you run from?
LMAO - There is also the fact you HAVE to do a "run, forrest: RUN!!!" vs. facts I put out!
Facts, that quite apparently judging on the results here vs. my posts & trolls like you, that not a single one of you trolls can disprove on the superiority of custom hosts files over AdBlock + Ghostery (crippled & advertiser owned, respectively, talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse" & only a FOOL would rely on them now because of that) as well as DNS (which has faults, & ones custom hosts files overcome & supplement DNS too)!
ALL, for better speed, security, reliability, + even anonymity (to an extent vs. DNS request logs & DNSBL's you may not like too) that custom hosts file usage yields for end-users of them... fact!
* Trolls - they're ALL THE SAME, & they NEVER "fail to FAIL", vs. myself (especially on the accounts noted above, lol).
APK
P.S.=> Above all else here perhaps? Well - Thanks for making ME, look GOOD & yourselves "not so good" especially by way of comparison since you're reduced to mere off-topic trolling & failed illogical ad hominem attack attempts, via your MULTIPLE failures, noted above...
... apk
You know, for research ;-)
Disprove my points here instead -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760859
* :)
You can't, can you...? Nope!
(Rather OBVIOUSLY not, in fact!)
You show us all reading this, since the "best you've got" is technically unjustifiable downmods to effetely & VAINLY *try* to "hide" my posts from view!
Face facts: You can't disprove my points, & that IS that!
(Won't work on the bogus downmods either - as most folks here browse WELL BELOW the default level to see ALL posts, even AC ones like mine!)
APK
P.S.=> Then, if you do your completely FAILING unjustifiable downmods (with no substance behind them to disprove my points no less)? I just post in reply to them, draggin them back INTO VIEW...
You fail there too, lol - best part is seeing you HAVE to *try* to "pull that" & failing, as well as seeing you completely reduced to doing a "run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. my points on custom hosts files' value on a plethora of levels for more speed, security, reliability & yes, even anonymity to an extent (vs DNS request logs + DNSBL's you may not like also), in your inability to disprove them with valid computing technical facts to do so, validly!
... apk
So. watching porn all year is just as dangerous as clicking two ads.
Privacy is terrorism.
"Argue w/ the #'s" 243++:1 vs. your off topic b.s.-> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760859
* Point-Blank FACT - You FAIL, & that, IS that... period!
APK
P.S.=> You're completely off-topic as well
&
You didn't validly disprove my points with countering facts in computing technical data either!
What I wrote by way of comparison?
It is HIGHLY in favor of custom hosts files' value to end users of them in added security, speed, reliability & even anonymity gains (to an extent)!
Plus - on a "myriad-plethora: of levels
vs.
faultier or crippled solutions like AdBlock, Ghostery, & DNS!
(The latter of which custom hosts actually SUPPLEMENT vs. their shortcomings in security & efficiency in a number of ways, including lightening their request load as well for admins of them - BONUS!)
... apk
See subject-line & "rinse, lather, & repeat" -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42763377
* You have FAILED on multiple levels!
First by being off topic & trolling!
Secondly, by opening your mouth & inserting your FOOT into it vs. contrary evidence I produced vs. your b.s.!
(Mind you, it was from your own /. peers & it quite CLEARLY "did the job" on you, for me, by letting YOU do it to yourself!)
All, via their upward moderations of my postings vs. your off-topic trolling 'opinion', which is outnumbered by MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE as to the quality of my postings @ /. over time!
APK
P.S.=> I don't "interact" with trolls that attempt to attack me on completely invalid off-topic grounds - especially ones our peers on /. easily outnumber, disproving trollish off topic crap... period!
... apkl
...Cisco recommends to spend more time surfing Porn and download counterfeit software than anything else on the Internet. Point taken.
'Users are 21 times more likely to get hit with malware from online shopping sites and 27 more times likely with a search engine than [if they weren't using Windows] ..
AccountKiller
Yeaaaah.
Google:
Cisco router backdoor
Cisco routers rootkits
Linksys router backdoor
Linksys routers rootkits
Cisco firmware router rootkit backdoor
OT: Thanks, Cisco, now we need to trust Belkin to release firmware updates?
JQPublic: Download all of the available updates in software/firmware for all Linksys products, sign and checksum each and host/seed them because once a 'change' happens like this, from Cisco to Belkin, often pages, sites, and sw/fw disappear. Do it NOW.
That documented facts disprove -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42763377
* :)
APK
P.S.=> Get on topic, disprove my points here -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269 THEN, perhaps I'd take some advisement - otherwise? See above...
... apk
With "hit & run" unjustifiable downmods can't disproven this -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667 alone (let alone the million other places) I don't see them changing any time soon.
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"Of course using a hosts file is a better solution for people who have one single computer that connects to all sorts of networks." - by green1 (322787) on Friday February 01, @05:31PM (#42766255)
Aha - so, there's the truth, right there... but, you're missing another point my initial post makes: I USE REMOTE DNS SERVERS MYSELF, albeit, specialized filtering ones that block out online threats too, AND, that I use hosts to supplement them, overcoming the list of faults in DNS noted in my initial post too -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667
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"But for my particular situation it is just not ideal, and the DNS server offers a whole bunch of advantages, and almost no disadvantages." - by green1 (322787) on Friday February 01, @05:31PM (#42766255)
Eating more ELECTRICITY (raising your bills, especially if your DNS is a SEPARATE MACHINE) isn't a disadvantage?
Eating more CPU cycles isn't a disadvantage??
Eating more RAM isn't a disadvantage???
Eating more I/O of other forms isn't a disadvantage????
Using a more "moving parts" complex tool vs. custom hosts (a single file) that're TIGHTLY INTEGRATED into the IP stack itself and LESS moving parts isn't a disadvantage????
Using DNS with all of its faults I listed (worst being the fact DNS's unpatched vs. the Kaminsky flaw for 1/2 a decade++ still on MOST DNS SERVERS WORLDWIDE, worst of all @ the ISP level) isn't a disadvantage?????
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"For me, I administer one list on the DNS server, and it covers all my family's computers, all our cell phones, tablets, and any other internet connected devices. As I'm running the server for other things anyway it costs me nothing." - by green1 (322787) on Friday February 01, @05:31PM (#42766255)
You could migrate a custom hosts file using logon scripts easily, OR, use your AD admin priveleges & a batch file or powershell script to do so as well - with far less disadvantages shown above (worst being the last one, unless you patched, hope you did)... & you can actually SUPPLEMENT DNS' vs. its own SHORTCOMINGS with hosts too.
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"Although I do have to do some small amount of administration myself, it beats trusting any other application to do it, especially one spamvertised on some random internet site..." - by green1 (322787) on Friday February 01, @05:31PM (#42766255)
LOL, is THAT "the best you got", along with unjustifiable "hit & run" downmods of my original post? Apparently so!
However/Again: I do NOT see you disproving the facts I listed in it either...
APK
P.S.=> So much for you... apk
Disprove my points here instead -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760859
* :)
You can't, can you...? Nope!
(Rather OBVIOUSLY not, in fact!)
You show us all reading this, since the "best you've got" is technically unjustifiable downmods to effetely & VAINLY *try* to "hide" my posts from view!
Face facts: You can't disprove my points in favor of custom hosts files over "almost all ads blocked" (adblock), & that IS that!
(Won't work on the bogus downmods either - as most folks here browse WELL BELOW the default level to see ALL posts, even AC ones like mine!)
APK
P.S.=> Then, if you do your completely FAILING unjustifiable downmods (with no substance behind them to disprove my points no less)? I just post in reply to them, draggin them back INTO VIEW...
You fail there too, lol - best part is seeing you HAVE to *try* to "pull that" & failing, as well as seeing you completely reduced to doing a "run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. my points on custom hosts files' value on a plethora of levels for more speed, security, reliability & yes, even anonymity to an extent (vs DNS request logs + DNSBL's you may not like also), in your inability to disprove them with valid computing technical facts to do so, validly!
... apk
Disprove my points here instead -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667
* :)
You can't, can you...? Nope!
(Rather OBVIOUSLY not, in fact!)
You show us all reading this, since the "best you've got" is technically unjustifiable downmods to effetely & VAINLY *try* to "hide" my posts from view!
Face facts: You can't disprove my points in favor of custom hosts files over "almost all ads blocked" (adblock), Ghostery, AND DNS... & that IS that!
(Won't work on the bogus downmods either - as most folks here browse WELL BELOW the default level to see ALL posts, even AC ones like mine!)
APK
P.S.=> Then, if you do your completely FAILING unjustifiable downmods (with no substance behind them to disprove my points no less)? I just post in reply to them, draggin them back INTO VIEW...
You fail there too, lol - best part is seeing you HAVE to *try* to "pull that" & failing, as well as seeing you completely reduced to doing a "run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. my points on custom hosts files' value on a plethora of levels for more speed, security, reliability & yes, even anonymity to an extent (vs DNS request logs + DNSBL's you may not like also), in your inability to disprove them with valid computing technical facts to do so, validly!
... apk
Disprove my points here instead -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667
* :)
You can't, can you...? Nope!
(Rather OBVIOUSLY not, in fact!)
You show us all reading this, since the "best you've got" is technically unjustifiable downmods to effetely & VAINLY *try* to "hide" my posts from view!
Face facts: You can't disprove my points in favor of custom hosts files over "almost all ads blocked" (adblock), Ghostery, AND DNS... & that IS that!
(Won't work on the bogus downmods either - as most folks here browse WELL BELOW the default level to see ALL posts, even AC ones like mine!)
APK
P.S.=> Then, if you do your completely FAILING unjustifiable downmods (with no substance behind them to disprove my points no less)? I just post in reply to them, draggin them back INTO VIEW...
You fail there too, lol - best part is seeing you HAVE to *try* to "pull that" & failing, as well as seeing you completely reduced to doing a "run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. my points on custom hosts files' value on a plethora of levels for more speed, security, reliability & yes, even anonymity to an extent (vs DNS request logs + DNSBL's you may not like also), in your inability to disprove them with valid computing technical facts to do so, validly!
... apk
Disprove my points here instead -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760951
* :)
You can't, can you...? Nope!
(Rather OBVIOUSLY not, in fact!)
You show us all reading this, since the "best you've got" is technically unjustifiable downmods to effetely & VAINLY *try* to "hide" my posts from view!
Face facts: You can't disprove my points in favor of custom hosts files over "almost all ads blocked" (adblock), Ghostery, AND DNS... & that IS that!
(Won't work on the bogus downmods either - as most folks here browse WELL BELOW the default level to see ALL posts, even AC ones like mine!)
APK
P.S.=> Then, if you do your completely FAILING unjustifiable downmods (with no substance behind them to disprove my points no less)? I just post in reply to them, draggin them back INTO VIEW...
You fail there too, lol - best part is seeing you HAVE to *try* to "pull that" & failing, as well as seeing you completely reduced to doing a "run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. my points on custom hosts files' value on a plethora of levels for more speed, security, reliability & yes, even anonymity to an extent (vs DNS request logs + DNSBL's you may not like also), in your inability to disprove them with valid computing technical facts to do so, validly!
... apk/b
Adblock Plus + Ghostery + Host File = Win!
HostsMan is an awesome application that will automatically update your host file for you:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
"wow.... and the troll just will not give up" - by green1 (322787) on Saturday February 02, @11:14AM (#42771321)
See subject-line, & again: Disprove my points here -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667 big talker - you're also reduced to an illogical off-topic FAILING ad hominem attack too now I see!
Funny that you "can't touch that" in the link above, since it simply contain facts you can't touch (& you know it, otherwise, you'd have disproved it) - especially @ its termination in my 'p.s.' section there... lol!
(Funny you run from disproving what's in that link, eh? NOT!)
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"completely ignores everything I said" - by green1 (322787) on Saturday February 02, @11:14AM (#42771321)
Now, how could I have "ignored" what you said, when I quote you point-by-point & tear up what you said in my responses to you?
AND??
You ARE the one pulling the "run, forrest - RUN!!!" from disproving what's in the link above, now aren't you? LOL, yes, you are!
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"and wants to force his inferior system on the world" - by green1 (322787) on Saturday February 02, @11:14AM (#42771321)
LMAO - You're the one running the "inferior system" that's SO CHOCK FULL OF BUGS OVER TIME, it's not even funny!
(One that's unpatched mostly WORLDWIDE TOO, vs. the Kaminsky flaw, & that makes it VERY EASILY REDIRECT POISONABLE!)...
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"too bad the troll is too cowardly to log in." - by green1 (322787) on Saturday February 02, @11:14AM (#42771321)
Oh yes, the illogical off-topic ad hominem attack - SO 'effective' (lol, not... more like effete).
What do I really GAIN being like a little kid, like you, living for "karma points" & being SO TRACKABLE FOR TROLLING due to your post history it's not even funny?
APK
P.S.=> Now, since you like giving me guff that's completely off-topic? I challenge a forums "ne'er-do-well" like yourself to show us you've done as much as I have, MORE, & EARLIER + BETTER than I have in the art & science of computing, from this partial list of some of MY favorites I have done over time, ok?
"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 VIRU
"You are the one who started this off-topic discussion about what you consider unfair down mods. I am staying on the topic of discussion you started, you are the one going off-topic. =P" - by Jeng (926980) on Saturday February 02, @11:19AM (#42771357)
Here's the root of the discussion tree between you & I -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
* :)
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"Fine, what do you think of the hostfile modifications that Spybot does? Is their list comprehensive enough? - by Jeng (926980) on Saturday February 02, @11:19AM (#42771357)
It's pretty good, just not as comprehensive as mine is & I incorporate their data into mine too PLUS that of another dozen or so reputable & reliable sources for custom hosts files data that ends up gaining a user of them added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent as well!
Here's a quote I often use from a respected security expert from a division of SYMANTEC in fact, regarding that very thing, Spybot & hosts files' efficacy too:
the words of respected security expert, Mr. Oliver Day, from SECURITYFOCUS.COM to "top that all off" as well:
A RETURN TO THE KILLFILE:
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491
Some "PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS" to back up my points with (for starters):
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"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet -- particularly browsing the Web -- is actually faster now."
Speed, and security, is the gain... others like Mr. Day note it as well!
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"From what I have seen in my research, major efforts to share lists of unwanted hosts began gaining serious momentum earlier this decade. The most popular appear to have started as a means to block advertising and as a way to avoid being tracked by sites that use cookies to gather data on the user across Web properties. More recently, projects like Spybot Search and Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans and other forms of malware."
Per my points exactly, no less... & guess who was posting about HOSTS files a 14++ yrs. or more back & Mr. Day was reading & now using? Yours truly (& this is one of the later ones, from 2001 http://www.furtherleft.net/computer.htm (but the example HOSTS file with my initials in it is FAR older, circa 1998 or so) or thereabouts, and referred to later by a pal of mine who moderates NTCompatible.com (where I posted on HOSTS for YEARS (1997 onwards)) -> http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread28597-1.html !
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"Shared host files could be beneficial for other groups as well. Human rights groups have sought after block resistant technologies for quite some time. The GoDaddy debacle with NMap creator Fyodor (corrected) showed a particularly vicious blocking mechanism using DNS registrars. Once a registrar pulls a website from its records, the world ceases to have an effective way to find it. Shared host files could provide a DNS-proof method of reaching sites, not to mention removing an additional vector of detection if anyone were trying to monitor the use of subversive sites. One of the known weaknesses of the Tor system, for example, is direct DNS requests by applications not configured to route such requests through Tor's network."
There you go: AND, it also works vs. the "KAMINSKY DNS FLAW" & DNS poisoning/redirect attacks, for redirectable weaknesses in DNS servers (non DNSSEC type, & set into recursive mode especially) and also in the TOR system as well (that lends itself to anonymous proxy usage weaknesses I noted above also) and, you'll g
Trying to vainly "hide" my post with bogus unjustifiable downmods -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
AND, being unable to validly disprove its points too??
Please... lol!
* :)
Won't work trolls... Why? Well - too many folks, if NOT most here in fact, browse below the bogus default /. has on ac posts!
(A default that *tries* to hide ac posts like mine in that alone from people's view)...
No - Folks'll see it regardless!
Then when you do your downmods to vainly *try* to "hide" my posts?
Well - I simply merely drag them back into view by replying to them... that's all!
AND
Then, the most FUN part of all, is to watch you "run, forrest - RUN!!!" when you can't disprove facts & points I enumerated in the link above!
Fact!
You fail, trolls... badly, on ALL accounts I just noted: I know it, YOU KNOW IT, & anyone reading with 1/2 a brain even knows it!
APK
P.S.=> "Onwards & upwards"...
... apk
Stealing your bandwidth you pay for out of pocket & infecting you - to the tune of 40% of every webpage on average in data to download & process (raising electricity bills too by that measure, as well as stealing what YOU PAID FOR FROM YOUR ISP MONTHLY).
I did something about it, myself, & yes - it works -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
* Better than AdBlock or Ghostery (crippled by default in the former, & advertiser owned in the latter - you'd have to be a FOOL to use them now on that note in fact, & they're "foxes guarding the henhouse")...
Also, better than running a local DNS server too -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667
Especially when setup in recursive mode (and you'd HAVE to do this, preferably pointed @ say, ICANN & patched vs. the Kaminsky bug too)...
Which "opens the door" to the security vulnerability below, AND OTHERS LIKE IT too (see link, has a list of such things over time & ONLY partial too, mind you).
Especially doing DNS servers in a separate machine (but same running on a single system too just not as much), since it's more complex to work with, as well as overheads in RAM, CPU cycles, & other forms of I/O used, and massively VULNERABLE worldwide even 1/2 a decade later vs. the Kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw - especially since MOST ISP's worldwide haven't patched for it!)
APK
P.S.=> The program works with a native file that's TIGHTLY INTEGRATED into the IP stack itself running as efficiently as possible in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode (vs. browser addons known to slow down browsers, already slower by laying over them, & they are in far, Far, FAR SLOWER usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 also)... & this "lightens the load" on DNS servers as well (by avoiding them, & faster IP address resolutions result than from remote DNS servers too - double bonus!)...
... apk
You of all people KNOW this already -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760847 if anyone does here, in your replies to me on them previously, quoted next:
"you're right about hosts files" - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26, @01:21PM (#36252958)
* :)
APK
P.S.=> AdBlock's crippled by default (doesn't block all ads anymore, they "souled-out") - however, NoScript you're dead-on right about (still great stuff for Mozilla products users)...
... apk
See subject-line & the unjustifiable downmod -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42776997 IF you're "so sure of yourself", then WHY TRY TO HIDE MY POINTS IN REBUTTAL to yours, hmmm?
* :)
(You show you could NOT deny or disprove my points in the link above validly... which "says it all" for my points, vs. yours!)
APK
P.S.=> Since that's the "best you got", in VAINLY *trying* to "hide" my post there shown above with an unjustifiable downmod applied to it? Then, you clearly are shilling for advertisers, nothing more & couldn't combat my points, validly - period!
... apk
Ads steal your bandwidth you pay for out of pocket & infecting you - ads = 40% of the size of every webpage on average in data to download & process (raising electricity bills too by that measure, as well as stealing what YOU PAID FOR FROM YOUR ISP MONTHLY).
I did something about it, myself, & yes - it works -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42760269
* Better than AdBlock or Ghostery (crippled by default in the former, & advertiser owned in the latter - you'd have to be a FOOL to use them now on that note in fact, & they're "foxes guarding the henhouse")...
Also, better than running a local DNS server too -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424523&cid=42761667
(Especially when a DNS server's setup in recursive mode (and you'd HAVE to do this, preferably pointed @ say, ICANN & patched vs. the Kaminsky bug too))...
Which "opens the door" to the security vulnerability below, AND OTHERS LIKE IT too (see link, has a list of such things over time & ONLY partial too, mind you).
Especially doing DNS servers in a separate machine (but same running on a single system too just not as much), since it's more complex to work with, as well as overheads in RAM, CPU cycles, & other forms of I/O used, and massively VULNERABLE worldwide even 1/2 a decade later vs. the Kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw - especially since MOST ISP's worldwide haven't patched for it!)
APK
P.S.=> The program works with a native file that's TIGHTLY INTEGRATED into the IP stack itself running as efficiently as possible in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode (vs. browser addons known to slow down browsers, already slower by laying over them, & they are in far, Far, FAR SLOWER usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 also)... & this "lightens the load" on DNS servers as well (by avoiding them, & faster IP address resolutions result than from remote DNS servers too - double bonus!)...
... apk