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Mozilla Fixed a 14-Year-Old Bug In Firefox, Now Adblock Plus Uses Less Memory
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla launched Firefox 41 yesterday. Today, Adblock Plus confirmed the update "massively improves" the memory usage of its Firefox add-on. This particular memory issue was brought up in May 2014 by Mozilla and by Adblock Plus. But one of the bugs that contributed to the problem was actually first reported on Bugzilla in April 2001 (bug 77999).
When you can use ublock Origin, which uses even less ram.
Now I can not only block the Kardashians but also Donald Trump and Taylor Swift.
fixed in a timely fashion I see.
When will they fix the bug that's slowly turning Firefox into a crappy clone of Chrome?
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
At least it feels like that. When you have 100 tabs open for weeks at a time, it hogs up memory and doesn't let it go until the program crashes or the computer does.
It does it on Windows and Mac. Even Linux Mint had this problem too.
There are many bugs (unintentional) and problems (intentional) that have gone uncorrected in Firefox. If Mozilla was not so arrogant and listened to the users, they would have an awesome product. Instead, we have a crash-prone clone of Chrome.
Using Firefox has become like that relationship that used to be perfect and then out of nowhere your partner starts cheating on you and each time swears its going to be the last time.
And you keep falling for it.
"I'm a humble person really,
I'm actually much greater than I think I am"
There was this woman I worked with who constantly complained of her computer locking up. For every page she looked at, she would open a new tab. After a couple of hours, she had a few dozen tabs open. Clicking on the close program icon wouldn't look like it was dining anything. It took several minutes to close the browser down.
And she kept doing it even after it was explained to her that she was causing her machine to hang!
To this day I have no idea why she insisted on doing it.
Firefox 41 also removed the New Tab URL preference (browser.newtab.url), telling people to use a third-party extension instead.
The reason? Malware can change the setting. Full stop. That's it. So, because someone's computer is already compromised, and that malware changed a Firefox preference (alongside doing things like, you know, running a keylogger), Mozilla decided to cause headache and grief for everyone else. And to top it all off, if you want to continue to configure the new tab URL, you should use an extension written by some random guy.
I just don't understand the mentality. Choosing the default URL for a new tab seems like such an obvious feature, yet it's getting ripped out too, like so many others that Gavin Sharp has pissed on. Fuck Mozilla.
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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n/t
Ah. An AdBlock thread without APK is like a outhouse without the stink.
AFAICT it's not a bug, more of a feature request.
The problem was that style sheets were not being shared between pages, even if they were identical. So AdBlockPro had a copy of its style sheets shared in each tab. Apparently it uses a large style sheet?
So this change allowed for some de-duplication.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
There is hope yet for all the bugs I've submitted.
Who is this idiot that keeps spamming that crap?
I thought Firefox didn't have any memory issues? That was the party line from Mozilla for so long.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
How do I block THIS ad?
On behalf of all other AC's I apologize for this piece of unintelligible tripe.
I realize we do not have a very good reputation, but this is below even our standards. And that includes goatse, GNAA and even DICE editing standards.
Again, on behalf of all AC's, our sincerest apologies.
I'm definitely all for reducing firefox's memory footprint. It's definitely a memory hog. But if you use your hosts file or DNS to do your adblocking, then it works with all browsers. Heck, if you control your router, and you put the blocking in DNS there, then you get it on all of your computers. Currently, I use unbound with https://github.com/jodrell/unb... on a cronjob to update the block list regularly, and all of my browsers are free of ads without having to figure out the best way to block ads in each browser - or having to worry about how it affects firefox's already ludicrous memory footprint.
APK you really need to grow up. Random people will say random things to you.
Get a girl, grow roses and make some kids. More rewarding that duking it out with random assholes here.
Here comes Slashdot's resident spammer to tell us why browser extensions are bad, but some bullshit software he wrote (which just rides the coattails of other people) is good.
Notice he never addresses how advertising companies spin up new servers day in and day out, but no operating system's implementation of /etc/hosts will support wildcards on a domain. Blocking foo.adserver.com is useless when they create bar.adserver.com and baz.adserver.com an hour from now. Instead, he will ad-hominem attack anyone mentioning this.
Notice he never addresses the fact that advertising companies have begun serving their ads directly from IP addresses, bypassing DNS altogether. Instead, he will ad-hominem attack anyone mentioning this.
Notice he never addresses the fact that browser extensions can recognize and block certain DOM elements no matter where they come from, whereas a hosts file is completely incapable of assisting in this manner. Instead, he will ad-hominem attack anyone mentioning this.
At least it isn't as old as the "add extra row to textarea" bug reported in 2000, and still not fixed.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654
There are work arounds, but there shouldn't need to be.
11.) Get you by dnsbl
If you aren't a spammer, why would you want to evade DNSBLs?
After my computer slowing to a crawl, inspecting the task manager, discovering FF was using 1.5G memory, restarting FF, and seeing that it only used 500M memory with the exact same windows open, what realistic alternatives are there?
Chrome, no. There's a new Opera coming out, but not anytime soon. IE, not in this lifetime. I've been out of the loop for a long time, what does the alternative browser market look like these days?
And throw in a replacement for Thunderbird as well, I'm tired of waiting 30 seconds for a "create a new message" window to appear on my system.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
How come you've only posted once on this APK guy? Too many AC's so you can't paste links to other arguments that you've lost?
Also, that is actually nonsensical as a DNS BL is something you are added to that the other person uses, you can't get by it by using a hosts file on either end (as a hosts file isn't anything like a DNS BL).
But that is ok, when you bring up problems with his hosts files, it is nothing but ad hominem and "I totally showed you up" when he did nothing of the sort.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
APK, why are you pretending to be someone else?
APK's host file program fixed this bug years ago, that is why he feels he is on topic with this post.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I hear that BOTH the people still using Firefox are thrilled by this development!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
If www.1.com was blocked @ DNS level by DNSBL, if I have IPAddresswww.1.com in hosts it works and I can get to it, stupid... a DNS Block List can't stop me.
* Holy SHIT are you fucking dumb!
APK
P.S.=> I knew you were subpar in computing know-how, but how much so I never knew, until now... lol, unbelievable!
... apk
Huh?
This comment seems to be one of the most informative. So much for the IQ of Slashdotters!
I was having a bit of a rough day, one of our major sites was down because the backbone provider screwed up and everyone was pissed, and you managed to make me laugh out out for the first time today despite all of that. Thanks!
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Apparently I am dumb, as I actually know what a DNS black list is, and you don't.
http://www.dnsbl.info/
Blacklists are used by mail servers to automatically black hole messages from known spammers. They are not used by your web browser, so adding a BLed address to your hosts file would be 1. extraordinarily dumb, and 2. not do anything.
If you don't know what a term means, don't just assume that the name describes it, instead you should look it up and read about it.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Coren22 apk make you eat your words admitting he's right http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... after your hypocritical bs on admin privelege used which you admitted using yourself shut you down easily. It was priceless. Then you also had to admit he's correct that he's shoring up security by blocking known bad sites in hosts which even Aryeh Goretsky of NOD32/ESET seconds apk on as a good security measure. The only way to do an update to hosts while inside Windows IS to use admin privelege (this is by design in Windows SFP/WFP) which you the user set, knowing full why, to secure your system vs. known bad sites by blocking them. You fail again troll.
Are you talking to yourself now APK?
Um, did you even read any of that thread APK? I never admitted you were right at all, and the reply to yours had me falling out of my seat laughing.
APK Hosts file = Unsecure garbage software
You didn't even write the majority of it, you just steal other people's lists and combine them into yours. Please tell me more about all your security chops, and how you have no freaking clue what a DNS BL is.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Except you said:
11.) Get you by dnsbl
DNS blocking isn't a DNSBL (DNS Blackhole/Black/Block List)
You like hosts, go use them and enjoy it. I think hosts have a use but it's not the only thing I use. I like my setup too, and I am enjoying it.
The difference is, I'm not an insecure little man with a desperate need to win converts. I don't really care what other people use. I wouldn't recommend anything to them unless they bring it up first. You remind me of a religious zealot on a mission to preach to the infidels.
We're talking about DNSBL, why are you avoiding the subject?
APK, you know what "P.S." means, right? In case you don't, I'll offer this common definition:
A postscript (P.S.) is an afterthought, thought of occurring after the letter has been written and signed. The term comes from the Latin post scriptum, an expression meaning "written after" (which may be interpreted in the sense of "that which comes after the writing").
Now, why in the hell does your text after the P.S. contain 39% more text than the text before the P.S.? This is Slashdot, we know you can't edit your posts to add things after the fact, so instead of putting in one or more postscripts, just finish your thought man. And what's with the little "=>" symbol? Are you trying to point out that the postscript is that text just to the right of where you write "P.S."? Let me tell you brother, that's obvious. People trying to interpret the things that you type don't need additional random punctuation whose only purpose is to point out the obvious but instead just end up adding additional confusion. Things like separating sentences with a plus sign (we understand, the next thought is supposed to follow the previous thought), occasionally switching to an ampersand then back to a plus sign, beginning sentences that are not footnotes with an asterisk, etc.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
posting once is enough. TY
DNS Blocking isn't the same thing as DNS BL, stop backpedaling.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
What part of DNS blocking ISN'T DNSBL did you not understand?
Domain Name System Blacklists, also known as DNSBL's or DNS Blacklists, are spam blocking lists that allow a website administrator to block messages from specific systems that have a history of sending spam. As their name implies, the lists are based on the Internet's Domain Name System, which converts complicated, numerical IP address such as 66.171.248.182 into domain names like example.net, making the lists much easier to read, use, and search. If the maintainer of a DNS Blacklist has in the past received spam of any kind from a specific domain name, that server would be "blacklisted" and all messages sent from it would be either flagged or rejected from all sites that use that specific list.
A hosts file entry isn't going to do a damn thing.
Evade them? I can't even spell them!
Your hosts file program is hot garbage.
Well, way to go Firefox! Right on top of things! But I thought Firefox has been saying for years it has no memory issues? So is this a 14 year old issue that really isn't an issue that now has been fixed? Got it.
If your IP address is on a DNSBL, then any attempt to communicate with systems behind it will fail. Your hosts file will do nothing, you would have to change your IP or use a proxy.
After a few hours of use with, say, ~10 tabs open, Firefox 40.0.3 leaks memory until it's using 2.6G of RAM, at which point it randomly stops loading images, gets very, very laggy, and freezes for ~30 seconds at a time.
I hope this fixes that (I fail to see how it could make it any worse, frankly).
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Learn to read. That's not the scenario described. Noticed Coren22 disappeared. Gosh! Wonder why (lol, not).
-1. I see a lot of angry /./FF fangurlz. If I had to make a guess, it's because they didn't come up with a post containing an in-depth analysis and screenshots first.
Your described scenario had nothing to do with DNSBL. Stop trying to change the subject.
Did you even read any of the links provided for DNSBL? I'm guessing you didn't because you think you know it all, which makes you both stupid and ignorant. You are simply incapable of learning anything because you refuse to admit that you're wrong.
Can your magic HOSTS file block
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
on Windows 10 that Microsoft doesn't let you block?
No, but a firewall can, aww poor APK. Your hosts file is pretty but useless in that regard.
Why would I know or care? Also, you're still avoiding the subject of DNSBL.
Apk's point and example are correct. They can block at DNS level but hosts can get you past it. DNS Block List is such a block. Play all the word games you like you're just loathe to admit apk got the best of you again Coren22 by ac post.
Coren22 by ac, you still avoiding apk's question here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... ? Yes.
Coren22 by ac post now: You still avoiding apk's fair question here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... ? Yes.
I actually ENJOY watching these troll worms flail all over, blowing all their modpoints (& I just run them dry of them eventually via my UNLIMITED posting abilities here, unlike other ac posters).
So you you put some effort into being a spammer (boast about it in fact) and you admit that you like disrupting the normal functioning of this site.
Did you ever ask yourself, "are these the actions of a happy, fulfilled person who has a meaningful life?" You're a pest and you like being a pest. The irony? You have done more to give your hosts program a bad name than anything anyone else could have possibly said.
FTFY - You're just another can't code himself critic with nothing to show for himself since if you really didn't give a shit you wouldn't even reply. Thanks for projecting that much that you do give a shit.
So ... are you going to respond to anything I said, or are you going to keep acting like a spoiled child?
Until hosts can be enabled/disabled for specific programs it is worthless as a security tool.
It also doesn't work on spammers not using a domain name, nor does it handle wildcards.
It does however, make you a giant tool.
TO REMOVE THE BOGUS OPTIONAL TELEMETRY HOTFIXES MANUALLY:
Open command prompt
Type powershell
issue these commands
---
TO SEE WHAT ONES ARE INSTALLED:
get-hotfix -id KB3035583, KB2952664,KB2976978,KB3021917,KB3044374,KB2990214
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TO UNINSTALL THEM (these for sure, per url next below):
wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /uninstall /kb:2952664 /uninstall /kb:2976978 /uninstall /kb:3021917 /uninstall /kb:3044374 /uninstall /kb:2990214
wusa
wusa
wusa
wusa
wusa
per http://www.ghacks.net/2015/04/...
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DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH (these uninstalled properly):
KB3068708 (Telemetry)
KB3075249 (Telemetry)
KB3080149 (Telemetry)
KB3022345 (Telemetry)
KB2977759 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation)
KB3021917 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparatioon + Telemetry)
KB3035583 (Windows 10 upgrade preparation)
---
I GOT "NOT INSTALLED ON THIS COMPUTER" ON THESE INITIALLY SINCE I HAD IE11 installed (PROBABLY ONES FOR IE9/10/11 &/or Windows 10 (I use Win7 here)):
KB3075249
KB3080149
KB2505438
* KB2670838 (See IE 9/10/11 notes below)
KB3044374
KB2990214 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation)
KB2505438 (Although it claims to fix performance issues, it often breaks fonts)
KB2976978 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation)
---
I GOT "NOT INSTALLED ON THIS COMPUTER" ON THESE (*PRIOR* TO PULLING KB2670838):
* KB2670838 (This update often breaks AERO on Windows 7 and makes some fonts on websites fuzzy. A Windows 7 specific update only
(do not install IE10 or 11 otherwise it will be bundled with them, IE9 is the max version you should install to avoid this).
THESE RE-APPEAR AFTER UNINSTALLING IE11 RIGHT ON RESTARTING & CHECKING WINDOWS UPDATE:
* KB2952664 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation prior to IE9/10/11 install)
* KB3021917 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation prior to IE9/10/11 install)
* KB3068708 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation prior to IE9/10/11 install)
* KB3092627 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation prior to IE9/10/11 install)
---
run cmd as administrator
sc stop Diagtrack
sc delete Diagtrack
---
*Task Scheduler Library:
Everything under "Application Experience"
Everything under "Autochk"
Everything under "Customer Experience Improvement Program"
Under "Disk Diagnostic" only the "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector"
Under "Maintenance" "WinSAT"
"Media Center" and click the "status" column, then select all non-disabled entries and disable them.
*services.msc:
"Remote Registry" to "Disabled" instead of "Manual".
---
IMPORTANT ONE IS GROUP POLICY (gpedit.msc):
Go to Control Panel, Administrative Templates, System
Internet Communication Management, Internet Communication Settings
ENABLE (to turn it on, it is a disabler)
"Turn off Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program"
(IF YOU HAVE Windows "home" (less than Pro models), export the section of the registry involved from a Pro system & merge the .reg file you exported - should work well enough to do the job here for those of you using that lesser model of Windows)
APK
P.S.=> & it works perfectly - no more tracking to worry about, + I don't even need a firewall rule for it since it's "gone w/ the dawn" thus... apk
You're completely off topic. Nobody's going to give you their time of day since you are.
I see them minusmod apk but no valid technical reasons why proving they can't prove apk wrong on anything in his posts on hosts.
Get on topic. Do something useful like apk has in his program. You can't prove his points on hosts wrong either. I suppose I for one expect too much from you slashdot trolls. You don't possess the skills to do either one, so go away troll, shoo. I think it's hilarious how apk makes you fools go nuts but you never ever prove him validly technically wrong. Not ever.
That's the amazing thing about APK and his bootlicking myrmidons (like you). You just can't actually respond to what someone is saying. You read what they said, but you lack the argumentation skill to actually rebut it. Being childish, that causes you to feel like you really don't like that person. Unable to meaingfully respond and filled with your vitriol, all you can do is hand-wave, call names, and change the subject.
If (for some strange reason) I wanted to, I could do that, too. What I couldn't do is act that way, and then convince myself that I am right and the other guy is a big dummy. That is a true masterwork of functional self-deception.
You're welcome. I think it's funny when apk makes trolls go nuts when they can't prove him wrong.
If by "go nuts" you mean laugh at how pathetic apk is, then yes, you've driven us stark raving mad. Of course "troll" is "anyone who doesn't agree with apk".
Why's Coren22 avoiding a simple question here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... ?
APK and his myrmidons are the masters of never answering a simple question. While congratulating themselves for being such great debators. More like master debators the way they enjoy their little circle-jerk.
DNS Blocking isn't the same thing as DNS BL, stop backpedaling.
APK and his myrmidon supporters don't backpedal. Backpedaling when it's obvious you are wrong requires honesty, integrity, and a concern for what the truth is. It also requires the courage to admit fault and the grace to want to.
Expecting APK and his myrmidons to do that is like expecting a cockroach to appreciate opera. It's far beyond their reach.
Coren22 by ac, you still avoiding apk's question here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... ? Yes.
The same way APK and his little fanboys are avoiding mine. And this one too. It's as though they realize that any honest answer would make them look bad.
Considering that soon Firefox will kill its plugin system. I have disabled Firefox. Time for a new browser.
Here's some that are QUITE contrary to yours from /. users + experts in the field:
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
&
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
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* Let's see - a TOP antimalware company hosts AND RECOMMENDS my ware, & real users here like it (vs. an unidentifiable ac like you) - you're outnumbered, outthought, & OUTSMARTED, easily as usual, by "yours truly"...
APK
P.S.=> So, that "all said & aside": You've written a BETTER one? Prove it (of course, you can't - you're a no skills in computing useless trolling "ne'er-do-well" that can't even validly technically prove my points on hosts incorrect for Pete's sake - lol!)
... apk
Why's Coren22 is avoiding this fair question from apk then http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... ? Get on topic too while you're at it troll.
Apk's on topic with his question Coren22's running from. You're off topic and trolling.
Because you're Coren22 posting by ac
Sorry, you are wrong about that too.
You claim you can get by a DNSBL with a hosts file edit. You have still yet to explain how that would work, because you don't even know what a DNSBL is. Now that you've been exposed, you're trying to weasel out of your argument by changing the subject and attempting to toss in red herrings.
Not only are you uninformed, but you also lack the ability to educate yourself.
Play all the word games you like
I'll take that as tacit admission that you don't know what a DNSBL is. Thanks for finally confessing.
You also really ought to stop referring to yourself in the third person. It sounds strange to native speakers of the English language.
Stay on topic. Explain how your hosts file gets around DNSBL
Sorry, I was trying to find the point of your post but I got distracted by all of the random punctuation and bolding. I'm sure you have a point there, but you definitely do like to bury it in sugary fluff. Consider focusing more on the content that you want to get across and less on trying to point out what that content is. Good writing doesn't need to point out the point. Bolding half your post has the side effect of making the un-bolded parts seem unimportant.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Are you calling the Lord of Hosts a spammer?
APK has been owned over, and over, and over. Yet he still keeps repeating the same talking points as if this hasn't happened.
He must be a politician.
Apk made it simple to understand by example he's right on when he made Coren22 run here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Does the hosts file allow me to very finely grainedly tune which servers are allowed or denied contact depending on the server I'm contacting that requested the contents?
Does it allow me to unblock ads on specific sites in which I [i]want[/i] ads to appear?
Does it allow me to block a specific visual area of a specific webpage only, and nothing else?
Does it allow me to block contents from a specific directory within a server, but not from other directories?
Does it allow me to completely unblock a server when I access it directly, but block it when I access it indirectly from other sources?
Does it allow me to make changes on the fly, without the need to manually refresh the OS's and/or browser's DNS cache?
Does it allow me to intercept the contents of specific servers and rewrite the HTML contents on the fly according automated rules I myself define?
If the answer to any of the above questions is "no", then your solution doesn't attend my needs, while uBlock Origin does.
Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.
It doesn't matter if it's true or not. Posting the same thing repeatedly is the exact definition of spamming!
If by some miracle you found yourself without hands one day, the world would be a better place for not seeing all your spam!
Dude, just shut the fuck up. Nobody cares about your dumb-ass hosts file.
Talk projecting! You evidently do, why else reply? Truth hurts?? Yes http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
He has great reasons for it, he knows how to do it and why here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and I agree and I'd do the same were that pulled on me and I knew how to do what apk does.
Apk! The guy who's kicking the snot out of all you trolls and here's why http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
I find it hilarious you "big brains of /." can't get the better of apk and you can't prove his points on hosts wrong. Apk runs roughshod over you all easily.
Um, apk's myrmidon's have no existence in real life, just more little ant-men running round his head.
Hate to burst your bubble but it's easy to ignore a person of the common clay like apk. I ignore him and jump passed anything he has to say. Just like I do on another forum that I read where there is a moron just like apk, except this person loves VW.
It's not a program it's a hostfile.
Hosts files won't work in Windows 10
That's been squashed.
Use DD-WRT on your router, install auto daily blocklist update. Now no devices on network including mobile devices will never see any ads.
And you are pretending to be someone else in defense of yourself, because you have no supporters. You're off topic and insane. I look forward to you stalking all my comments and replying to them with some banal, insane challenge you think is awesomely important but everyone else finds childish and, well, sad.
The answer to each and every one of those is a resounding "no". APK will most likely ignore those, or issue a challenge (which ignores those points) and pretend that is the important thing. Oh, and expect him to stalk your comments and post comments purporting to be from other people asking why you are running away from the challenge. He's very predictable.
Any idea why it took them so long?
When a bug is old enough to get a driver's license, you know that shit got real...
You prove yourself wrong every single time you fail to respond to points raised, for example, about about wildcards and many other flaws.
Yes, I said "you".
Please, waste your time replying to this, because I will *certainly* read it!!!!!!!!!!!! :):):)
Moron.
Hi, apk. You know, even when you shorten your posts, it's still quite evident that it's you posting. So ... fuck off.
Fuck off, apk.
Fuck off, apk. Really. Far away.
You downmod me w/out proving me validly technically wrong so I repost nullifying your 1 effete "weapon" in the abused downmoderations AS well as making you "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from disproving points I put out on hosts - thanks trolls!
I won't let you little WORMS hide my posts & you KNOW you're running dry of those abused modpoints too... lol, & I CAN GO ON "BUSTIN' YOU UP" ALL NIGHT if I have to... it's fun, crushing you whimps... lol!!!
* :)
Why do I just ALWAYS win? Heck - because YOU'RE TOO FUCKING STUPID, lol.... truth!
(Gotta hand it to you boys - you make ME look GOOD... & yourselves, by way of comparison? LMAO - well, "not so good"... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> Now, you just KNOW that I've just GOTTA say it, now don't you? Ah, but of COURSE you do (per my own "inimitable style"):
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & it always IS vs. shills for inferior SOLD OUT crippled by default browser addon dimwit fans that use a bolted on "MoAr" that does less - lol, illogical as hell, but nobody can EVER accuse you fools of being intelligent... lol, that's certain!
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
Did you admit I was doing hosts update the ONLY way possible in code (something you don't know how to do obviously, along with thinking for yourself)?
* YES, you did... you fail as always!
APK
P.S.=> What I do in blocking KNOWN BAD SITES in hosts IS a good security measure - or didn't even Aryeh Goretsky of NOD32/ESET agree with me it is here too -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
?
YES HE DID - a REAL security pro, not a "wannabe" bullshitter like yourself... apk
See subject: MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
* You've done BETTER, bullshitter?
(Prove it - you can't, & THAT truly, IS that... lol! You don't have the talent, skills, or security understanding for it moron...)
APK
P.S.=> By the way menial: I wrote that entire codebase myself, by hand from scratch, & yes - ALL MY CODE + all roughly 30,000 lines of it!
Yes I work w/ good guys in the security community providing THEIR lists but I have my own ontop of theirs that I add roughly 100-200 sites each day to my hosts file from (that are bad OR adbanners, spam/phish sources, trackers, etc. added to hosts, everyday, myself)!
See - I have their respect, best in the business - YOU? Don't, lol... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject:Until you've done a better program than I have & you're on topic? You're just another off topic forums troll loser - AND YOU KNOW IT!
Face fact:
The fact nobody can prove my points wrong PROVES I've architected & coded a BETTER solution overall that does FAR more w/ FAR LESS!
PLUS:
I actually ENJOY watching these troll worms flail all over, blowing all their modpoints (& I just run them dry of them eventually via my UNLIMITED posting abilities here, unlike other ac posters).
Once they run outta modpoints to abuse *trying* to "hide" my posts (most here see them anyhow since most here browse well below the +1 easily abused so-called "moderation threshold" here)?
Then the off topic ad hominem attacks of theirs that fail out of frustration, start, & make me laugh, KNOWING they're frustrated & can't stop me then (their 1 effete 'weapon' in the unjustifiable abused downmod is gone courtesy of "yours truly" - & I'm probably doing some other slob a favor so they can't do it to him too...).
* It's fun - & technically limited DOLTS or not?
They help me strengthen my points in favor of hosts adding speed, security, reliability, & even added anonymity - so much so, they can't TOUCH those points!
APK
P.S.=> I love it - they're USEFUL dolts to me (not much of a challenge, but useful) - & all they do is make ME look GOOD (since all they have is abused unjustifiable downmods but no proving my points on hosts validly technically wrong)... apk
The worst is, his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources. Too bad APK doesn't get that different people have different needs and there's no such thing as "one size fits all".
Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.
If you send me an email, and my mail server is using a DNSBL, my server will get a response such as 127.0.0.5, this would indicate that you send spam (true...), and therefore my email server would drop the email you sent. Please explain how your hosts file will get around DNSBL now, as it isn't something under your control.
The last digit in the response usually corresponds to the reason that the mail server was blacklisted in some of the DNSBL providers. The RFC calls for the reason to be in a TXT field though.
If you don't believe me, do a Google search for DNSBL and see what it returns, it surely won't return what you are saying.
If Slashdot's mail server used a DNSBL, you would never even know your email was refused, it would not reach timothy, he wouldn't even know you had sent an email. Your hosts file will never get around it.
11.) Get you by dnsbl
This is a false statement. If you meant it to say DNS Blocking, than change it to that in your future spam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
NO. Read above under your original posting of this. I didn't respond as I was no longer reading Slashdot. I don't spend 16 hours a day on Slashdot.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
See subject do-nothing Dave420: I KNOW YOU'RE STUPID, you in particular -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... since you "Run, Forrest:RUN!!!" from validly technically proving my points on hosts wrong - it can't be done (& certainly NOT by the mega-cretin "likes of you", you off topic little troll worm!).
* :)
(All you fools have is your "downmods" that are abused since there's NOTHING WRONG with my posts @ all, they're on the topic @ hand UNLIKE YOU - you can't touch them, or me - as far as your downmods? Look around - I just reposted OVER THEM ALL as usual!)
APK
P.S.=> Keep blowing those modpoints till you run dry of them loser - you will, & I'll still have my posts out unhidden, lol... I win, as always... apk
Does your software require elevation, of course it does, that was my point, not yours. I was making the point that elevation is a bad idea, and it is required to write to the hosts file because you shouldn't be writing to the hosts file. If you take that to mean that I am agreeing with you, you really do have an odd mind.
I am not agreeing with you, that was my original statement, and the whole basis of the argument. Ad Block Plus requires no elevation, it therefore cannot install trojans, it cannot hijack your DNS entry in networking to redirect it to another site possibly effecting a MiTM attack, it cannot change anything your standard user account can't access. Also, it can be installed to machines where you aren't an administrator, such as work computers.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
See subject: Yes, they are & I've exhausted them, running you DRY of your PUNY little "weapon" but you NEVER ever prove my points on hosts validly technically wrong! Not ever...
Yet You losers downmod me w/out proving me validly technically wrong so I repost nullifying your 1 effete "weapon" in the abused downmoderations AS well as making you "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from disproving points I put out on hosts - thanks trolls!
I won't let you little WORMS hide my posts & you KNOW you're running dry of those abused modpoints too... lol!
(... & I CAN GO ON "BUSTIN' YOU UP" ALL NIGHT if I have to... it's fun, crushing you whimps... lol!!!)
* :)
Why do I just ALWAYS win? Heck - because YOU'RE TOO FUCKING STUPID, lol.... truth!
(Gotta hand it to you boys - you make ME look GOOD... & yourselves, by way of comparison? LMAO - well, "not so good"... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> Now, you just KNOW that I've just GOTTA say it, now don't you? Ah, but of COURSE you do (per my own "inimitable style"):
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & it always IS vs. shills for inferior SOLD OUT crippled by default browser addon dimwit fans that use a bolted on "MoAr" that does less - lol, illogical as hell, but nobody can EVER accuse you fools of being intelligent... lol, that's certain!
... apk
Where? Show us! You can't & downmodded last time I asked you do so http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
I've never seen anyone get the best of apk. You prove you're full of it since you couldn't in that link above yet again!
In fact, Apk made you trolls run here again http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... minusmods to hide his fair challenge since you can't meet it as always, hahahahaha
See subject & answer this: Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject & clue: If I don't USE dns, you don't get blocked by it & hosts do that!
Yes, Coren22 - it's THAT simple, & you FAIL again as usual vs. myself.
E.G. (again):
DNS blocks slashdot.org? Ok, fine - I put this in hosts
216.34.181.45 slashdot.org
& guess what?
THAT GETS ME TO SLASHDOT REGARDLESS OF DNS BLOCKING & FASTER THAN REMOTE DNS COULD SINCE I AM RESOLVING LOCALLY FROM RAM HERE (hosts is cached) WHICH ALSO AIDS RELIABILITY vs. REDIRECT POISONED DNS or DOWNED DNS too!
* You're either a PITIFUL bullshitter or STUPID AS HELL if you don't acknowledge the TRUTH of that from me...
APK
P.S.=> Coren22, wiping you out is cake, every SINGLE time you try to "troll" me - why? You're stupid... the above evidences it easily in fact - NO questions asked... apk
"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" hahahahaha
You're all weak running from apk's question (just downmodding it to hide it) http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and we're all laughing at your antics. The "big brains of /." crushed easily by apk and fact. Hahahahaha @ U loser.
You're off topic and can't prove apk wrong here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... all you do is downmod posts that are backed by facts since somehow apk's superior design upsets your agenda (mr. advertiser obviously). So he just posts again making you blow through all your modpoints you abuse since you can't prove him wrong, and apk just makes you all look doubly stupid and weak too. It's hilarious how apk makes you fools dance to his tune!
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues - obtaining its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community - using something you already have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR' that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overuse overheads & actually SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed), whereas by way of comparison, other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOW YOU DOWN!
* :)
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
---
"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"...
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
More credible believable ones vs. you "ne'er-do-well" http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and here's another http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... so you have to "eat your words" again, you trolling "ne'er-do-well" little fool... lol!
* :)
Hundreds on this site alone use hosts, & MILLIONS worldwide are using my program!
(So much demand for it that malwarebytes' hpHosts admin HAD TO MOVE THE SITE HOSTING MY PROGRAM to Amazon UnDDoS'able servers due to such demand for it in downloads & the data it draws!)
(How's it taste, "eating your words"?)
APK
P.S.=> Against me, you REALLY ought to consider changing your diet: "Eating your words" != GOOD nutrition, lol... apk
If you right click on the trayicon for the program IF you leave it resident (which doubly protects hosts vs. alteration by malware by the way, over WFP/SFP in Windows since it CAN be bypassed), it has an "enable/disable hosts" functionality, 1 click easy...
Thus, allowing you to easily see ads IF you wish!
* Why WOULD you WANT TO man? Ads are KNOWN to INFECT you-> http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... & this -> http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... & they also TRACK YOU!
APK
P.S.=> Those same ads also steal your bandwidth that YOU PAY FOR man... apk
Truth's truth no matter who posts it and you can handle or stop it http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... you unidentifiable little trolling coward. Since you're posting ac it's obvious you applied the abused downmods to apk's post since you can't prove it wrong http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and you're only helping prove him right in your childish easily circumvented downmod antics. Apk just reposts again. He can do it and makes you look doubly like the weak fools you evidence yourselves to be.
Change your diet: Eating your words != Good Nutrition Dave420 http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Change your diet: Eating your words != Good Nutrition Dave420 http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and apk's already proven hosts do a lot more for people than inefficient slower higher overheads crippled by default sold out browser addons do by miles and not just against ads stupid, but also against malware of most kinds if not all. You did better? No. You're just a trolling "ne'er-do-well" unskilled little loser with a BAD diet (hahahaha see above, and don't wonder why everyone laughs at your Dope smokin Dave. Your post history proves that much).
Change your diet: Eating your words != Good Nutrition Dave420 http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Change your diet: Eating your words != Good Nutrition Dave420 http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
I dunno, I find it kind of funny when someone's toddler gets a hold of their tablet and posts gibberish. I'm impressed though, there were a few real words and almost some sentences in that! Monkeys with typewriters, I guess.
"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" troll, you FAIL -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* That's just "what you do/how you roll" - pure fail, lol!
(It's always a pleasure making you eat my dust AND your words too, lol!)
APK
P.S.=> What's it like knowing you can't validly technically disprove points I post on hosts' superiority & providing users with more security, speed, reliability, & even anonymity vs. inferior less efficient & less capable slower usermode browser addons (vs. hosts in kernelmode getting more CPU service)? Horrible, isn't it?? You only do it to yourself - you're a puny ant attempting to attack (& failing miserably everytime no less) a whale in myself - losing, badly, @ every turn... apk
Yet you admit using privelege elevation yourself Coren22. Hypocrite pot calling a kettle black & real SECURITY experts in Mr. Aryeh Goretsky (not wannabe amateurs like YOU) even STATED hosts are a valuable line of defense -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
* Are YOU, the "wannabe security guru" who merely reads what others wrote & can't THINK for himself, going to say "YOUR EXPERTISE" (non-existent - I'm one of the folks who INVENT things for menials like YOU, like my hosts program, to use, user - without which YOU ARE HELPLESS & LOST) is BETTER than his is & folks ought to "trust you" over him?
You even said once "I know nothing about security" - you little twat - I was securing systems AND WRITING GUIDES HOW TO DO IT, probably before YOU were born... & I create wares that really work for better security.
You? Don't. Period.
APK
P.S.=> Well? apk
Quit moving the goalposts & answer my question yes or no http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(You'd HAVE to answer "YES" since it works to circumvent DNS blocking AND it's faster than remote DNS by far, as well as protection vs. them being downed PLUS it makes your connection more reliable (vs. DNS poisonings etc.)).
APK
P.S.=> Face facts: As usual? I've eaten you alive, rather easily, using facts... apk
Since when did these two things become the same thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... =/= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You said DNSBL, not DNS blocking, they are different things used for different purposes.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Except the post you linked doesn't discuss DNSBL at all. Try again.
You can probably change this by editing Firefox's session preferences.
Try these settings in about:config
browser.sessionhistory.max_entries = 1
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers = 1
browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo = 1
browser.sessionstore.interval = 1000000
http://blog.codefront.net/2008/09/10/optimize-firefoxs-memory-usage-by-tweaking-session-preferences/
http://www.grmtech.com/blog/desktop-configuration-at-grmtech/
You could also try the Session Manager extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/
Apk explained a network admin can migrate them to user machines. You even had to ask apk how it's done. They can you know. He proved real security pros like NOD32 ESET people agreed hosts are a good security measure. Not an amateur noobie wannabe like you. A real security pro. Real security pros at malwarebytes' hpHosts recommend and host his sofware for security. You've done better? Prove it. You can't. You use privelege escalation yourself and said it's bad? You later admitted the only way he can update hosts in Windows is to use it and the user sets it himself knowing why to secure and speed up their machine. He said blocking at dns levels is circumventable by using hosts and not using dns and it's true. That's pretty easy to understand. You're foaming at the mouth he showed everyone here you're a moron is all. We can read you know. It's evident you can't and can't handle being schooled after you trolled the man and he blew you away.
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Learn to read. I understood it fine. What's funniest is not a one of you prove apk wrong.
What have you done better in the way of a security program? Why can't you validly technically prove apk wrong?? We know why.
Mere quibbling wordplay. Wikipedia says otherwise "Domain Name System Blocking, or DNS Blocking is a strategy for making it difficult for users to locate specific domains or web sites on the Internet" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and you ran from answering apk's very simple question even I know YES is the answer to here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... and that says it all Coren22. You fail.
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK is completely worthless.
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Shouldn't troll your betters Coren22. You got repeatedly smacked down http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & again http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & yet again http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
See subject: All or nothing across all apps multiplatform. Adblock can't (think programs like email ones like Outlook Express, Eudora, etc. that addons won't work with).
* Hosts just do the job on more levels far more efficiently than limited bloating SOLD OUT browser addons do, with less resources consumed as you conceded/agreed to - that's all
(I don't believe in "bolting on 'MoAr' that's less efficient & not as capable personally: Firewalls & hosts + patching are all you need vs. most if not all online threats - & messagepassing overheads, cpu + RAM use galore, along with being PAID OFF TO NOT DO THE SINGLE JOB addons had is a STUPID "moar" to use or believe in... period!)
APK
P.S.=> The internet worked JUST FINE before monetization. I held off on releasing my program (was done in 2003 as 1 single unified program, before that it was 3) out of respect for webmasters ONLY... however, once those NUMEROUS instances of ads INFECTING US came along? Here again:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comm...
&
http://apple.slashdot.org/comm...
Out the door she went... for the good of everyone - I find BOTH advertisers & webmasters negligent here in fact, infecting us AND stealing our bandwidth (and tracking us)...
SO WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO PAY THEM FOR THAT WHEN THEY'RE ALREADY FUCKING YOU OVER ON NUMEROUS LEVELS?... apk
Doesn't appear so to me. You guys can't prove him wrong on his posts and only downmod them.
Are you still trying to avoid the subject?
This is bullshit. Your settings basically turn off session restore. I might as well switch to links. What is the point of using a modern browser if I have to turn off it's modern features?
Wealth is the gift that keeps on giving.
Where are you APK? Why haven't you explained how your hosts file gets around DNSBL?
AlmostAllAdsBlock/AlmostAllAdsBlocked+ don't block all ads http://www.businessinsider.com... & don't do a fraction of what hosts do for more speed, security, reliability, + anonymity.
* All the 'granularity in the world' doesn't matter when they don't do their job by default (& most people won't change that) - all the abilities addons lack (WHILE CONSUMING MORE RESOURCES FOR NO GOOD REASON & BEING REGEX SLOWER TOO) vs. hosts isn't good either when compared to what hosts do for you.
APK
P.S.=> If you want to go to places (places whose content you can easily find elsewhere as everyone has a competitor) & take your chances on ads INFECTING + TRACKING you as well as slowing you down? Be my guest - it's your life... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
IF slashdot.org blocked @ DNS levels & I put 216.34.181.45 slashdot.org in my hosts file, will I reach slashdot?
* YES or NO will do as your answer...
Hell, you KNOW I'm right: How can I say that? Easy:
Instead of answering YES, which you'd have to? YOU DOWNMODDED & RAN "Forrest" (just like the little "beyotch" noob you are) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> You're just (& you're MAKING me just HAVE to say this) "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" to blow away, every single time you try to "troll" me... lol, no joke!
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
I avoid NOTHING from you loser, you ran from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... and downmodded it twice since you're unable to validly & technically prove me wrong (Mr. Coren22 sockpuppet).
APK
P.S.=> "MyAlternateID"? Give me a break Coren22, lol (your karma farming sockpuppet = "MyAlternateID" for abusing downmods is more like it)... apk
Can APK Hosts also block the same spammy message being posted over and over again in forums like Slashdot?
Note to self: send ABP and UBlock authors that as a potential feature enhancement.
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
Tell us another one, hypocrite - You admitted using admin priv yourself & how else could I programmatically update hosts minus it inside Windows, hmmm?
ANSWER:
I have to do it that way, to protect AND speed up users plus make their connections online more reliable!
(The latter of which also functions to make users faster than adblocking alone, by resolving host-domain names to IP address from hosts cached in RAM locally - far faster than calling out to remote DNS & less complex + less overheads ridden vs. locally installed DNS (less power, & FAR LESS if done on a separate machine)).
---
Aha! What's this Coren22 admits?
"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
See subject & BOTH quotes from you contradicting yourself!
(& a REAL security pro, Aryeh Goretsky of NOD32/ESET agrees hosts = good security -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ).
APK
P.S.=> LMAO - "EAT YOUR WORDS" you hypocritical STUPID little technically incompetent troll wannabe security guru, lol - you're constantly trolling me, your post history shows it - NOW, you're getting a DOSE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE (How's it taste? Better than how "eating your words" does I bet!)
... apk
"Domain Name System Blocking, or DNS Blocking is a strategy for making it difficult for users to locate specific domains or web sites on the Internet" -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* :)
DOWNMODDING THIS TO HIDE IT LAST 4x I POSTED IT TOO?
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
IF I am "so wrong", why do you come back DAYS LATER to try "hide" it then? You're trying to get me to remove a point from my list, not going to happen (since what I put below works per the definition above from wikipedia)... why??
YOU WON'T FACE THIS SIMPLE QUESTION YOU HAVE TO ANSWER YES TO -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
You even STUPIDLY answered no, but when I put slashdot's address into hosts as a favorite @ the top of hosts (faster than remote dns & assures you get to the site properly even if DNS is down OR redirect poisoned) it works to avoid DNS blocking too:
216.34.181.45 slashdot.org
Since I NEVER HAVE TO ACCESS DNS TO DO IT, I avoid DNS totally (blocks OR being redirect poisoned or down too & it's FASTER also - multiple bonus!).
I.E.-> When I avoid DNS (& all of its security issues like redirect poisonings + being used by malware via rogue DNS servers or open ones), I am also NOT SUBJECT to its blocklists!
APK
P.S.=> When will you little DOLT wannabes understand you're just NOT IN MY LEAGUE in the art & science of computing? Face facts - you lose... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject:... Until you've done a better program than I have? Don't give advice, Mr. OffTopic TROLL!
Face fact:
The fact nobody can prove my points wrong PROVES I've architected & coded a BETTER solution overall that does FAR more w/ FAR LESS!
PLUS:
I actually ENJOY watching these troll worms flail all over, blowing all their modpoints (& I just run them dry of them eventually via my UNLIMITED posting abilities here, unlike other ac posters).
Once they run outta modpoints to abuse *trying* to "hide" my posts (most here see them anyhow since most here browse well below the +1 easily abused so-called "moderation threshold" here)?
Then the off topic ad hominem attacks of theirs that fail out of frustration, start, & make me laugh, KNOWING they're frustrated & can't stop me then (their 1 effete 'weapon' in the unjustifiable abused downmod is gone courtesy of "yours truly" - & I'm probably doing some other slob a favor so they can't do it to him too...).
* It's fun - & technically limited DOLTS or not?
They help me strengthen my points in favor of hosts adding speed, security, reliability, & even added anonymity - so much so, they can't TOUCH those points!
APK
P.S.=> I love it - they're USEFUL dolts to me - good PUPPETS, lol, that I make dance to MY tune (not much of a challenge, but useful) - & all they do is make ME look GOOD (since all they have is abused unjustifiable downmods but no proving my points on hosts validly technically wrong)... apk
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers, + adds speed, security, & reliability, doing FAR more w/ FAR less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues!
It obtains its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed), whereas by way of comparison, other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOW YOU DOWN!
It does all that using something you already have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR' in addons that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overuse overheads!
* :)
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
---
"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"...
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
You prove yourself weak unable to validly technically disprove this http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
FACT: (which you help prove no less)
It's an example that shows your browser addons DON'T DO A FRACTION OF WHAT HOSTS CAN for added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity - period, AND hosts do so FOR FAR LESS RESOURCE CONSUMPTION & hosts aren't BRIBED (not Ublock, not yet, but AdBlock/AdBlock+ & Ghostery is bought out by advertisers & tracks you) to NOT WORK the SINGLE JOB THEY HAD (which hosts does FAR MORE than just that too) - blocking ALL ads!
* :)
(You FAIL loser... & you KNOW it!)
---
THIS "TOOK THE CAKE" OUTTA YOU & MADE ME HUGELY LAUGH:
"Please, waste your time replying to this, because I will *certainly* read it!!!!!!!!!!!! :):):)" -
I know, & you came back 8 DAYS LATER to downmod it http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Much to your dismay since as you can see? I just repost nullifying your 1 effete 'weapon' easily & I get you to blow all your modpoints getting you to run DRY of them!
(Dolt, who's the moron here? YOU ARE! I "burn" you @ EVERY turn... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> Fact: You little ridiculous weak little wannabes make me laugh & HELP prove my points for me with your antics (especially the bogus downmods - but as usual, I outskill you, being able to post as much as I like, lol, which lets me override your little abused downmods since you can't prove me wrong & try "hide" my posts of fact that back me - I just repost, letting you BLOW YOUR MODPOINTS away till you run DRY of them & guess what? I win - I always do vs. you weak worms!)... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
---
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
---
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk