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Software | Windows Server 2003 SP #1 fully patched, & massively tuned/tweaked to-the-max (plus latest drivers) |
Why use an ADBANNER BLOCKING HOSTS file? Here is why:
CHECK THIS, DATED TODAY 02/21/2007:
Microsoft apologises for serving malware
http://apcmag.com/5382/microsoft_apologises_for_serving_malware_to_customers
This is by no means, a first either... it's happened QUITE A FEW TIMES the past few years!
BUT BELOW, 9 posts down from this one, IS A DOWNLOADABLE WORKAROUND attached as a zipfile (hosts.zip), w/ install directions a few posts beneath that (easy) THAT SECURES YOU AGAINST THIS & ALSO SPEEDS YOU UP AS A BONUS
It also secures you against times your routers are under attack, or IF YOUR ISP/BSP's DNS SERVERS GO DOWN (per this URL from another thread here & from SLASHDOT DATA AS WELL)
Computer Routers face Hijack Risk:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=25734
SLASHDOT - DNS Root Server under attack:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/2238225
Keep reading...
AND, sorry webmasters: Yes, I know many of you do NOT like this file of mine & others like it, but this is a BIG part of why I use one!
(Mine blocks nearly 27,000 known adbanner servers & allows users to speed up access to their fav. sites - THIS latter part though, speed up of access to fav. sites, the user has to setup, himself, but, not loading the banners does as well AND secures you against this very type of threat!)
I comment out an example of it in the file so the users have a template how to do it... & it's FULLY documented internally in my 'custom HOSTS file', on how to get around when a site changes its URL/IP equation too - very easy, ping & notepad.exe!
It is also FULLY alphabetized in addition to being organized into diff. sections, so hunting down servers that may already exist in it for blocking adbanners is easier!
(this was done via a program I wrote up for myself that is noted near the top, which automates checks for me of existing vs. non-existing servers for adbanner blocks in its content - you don't have that, but the program sorted them all this way - this is so you can add new ones easily IN alphabetical order, or find them so you do NOT have 'double entries' (no big deal, because once it is loaded by your local dns cache, it removes those, but the shorter it is, the faster it is loaded!))
* HOWEVER, THIS is an example of part of why I use this file!
That, & the fact I pay for my linetime, & want ALL the speed possible out of it... meaning no calls to DNS servers w/ fav. sites you add to it, & YOU add them, not I (takes more time than using this file by FAR) & no calling out to adbanner servers, loading their datastream & executing it in my browsers either!
APK
P.S.=> Problem is though, w/ MS? They DO bypass the HOSTS file in some cases, see here:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/archives/2006/04/microsoft_hosts.html
It is SOME for the good, but shows that it CAN be circumvented too!
apk
CHECK THIS, DATED TODAY 02/21/2007:
Microsoft apologises for serving malware
http://apcmag.com/5382/microsoft_apologises_for_serving_malware_to_customers
This is by no means, a first either... it's happened QUITE A FEW TIMES the past few years!
BUT BELOW, 9 posts down from this one, IS A DOWNLOADABLE WORKAROUND attached as a zipfile (hosts.zip), w/ install directions a few posts beneath that (easy) THAT SECURES YOU AGAINST THIS & ALSO SPEEDS YOU UP AS A BONUS
It also secures you against times your routers are under attack, or IF YOUR ISP/BSP's DNS SERVERS GO DOWN (per this URL from another thread here & from SLASHDOT DATA AS WELL)
Computer Routers face Hijack Risk:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=25734
SLASHDOT - DNS Root Server under attack:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/2238225
Keep reading...
AND, sorry webmasters: Yes, I know many of you do NOT like this file of mine & others like it, but this is a BIG part of why I use one!
(Mine blocks nearly 27,000 known adbanner servers & allows users to speed up access to their fav. sites - THIS latter part though, speed up of access to fav. sites, the user has to setup, himself, but, not loading the banners does as well AND secures you against this very type of threat!)
I comment out an example of it in the file so the users have a template how to do it... & it's FULLY documented internally in my 'custom HOSTS file', on how to get around when a site changes its URL/IP equation too - very easy, ping & notepad.exe!
It is also FULLY alphabetized in addition to being organized into diff. sections, so hunting down servers that may already exist in it for blocking adbanners is easier!
(this was done via a program I wrote up for myself that is noted near the top, which automates checks for me of existing vs. non-existing servers for adbanner blocks in its content - you don't have that, but the program sorted them all this way - this is so you can add new ones easily IN alphabetical order, or find them so you do NOT have 'double entries' (no big deal, because once it is loaded by your local dns cache, it removes those, but the shorter it is, the faster it is loaded!))
* HOWEVER, THIS is an example of part of why I use this file!
That, & the fact I pay for my linetime, & want ALL the speed possible out of it... meaning no calls to DNS servers w/ fav. sites you add to it, & YOU add them, not I (takes more time than using this file by FAR) & no calling out to adbanner servers, loading their datastream & executing it in my browsers either!
APK
P.S.=> Problem is though, w/ MS? They DO bypass the HOSTS file in some cases, see here:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/archives/2006/04/microsoft_hosts.html
It is SOME for the good, but shows that it CAN be circumvented too!
apk
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