PeterC wrote ...


Use a Host file. Malware/ad sites are blocked. No hit on bandwidth.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Yep, stops a lot. My Hosts file is currently 240,000 - DNS service needs to
be disabled or else loading takes a long time.

Jeez. I've been running one of over 10 years and it's less than 36k.
You'll probably find that many of the urls in your list no longer exist.
M$, FBI etc are forever closing sites.


Useful little proggy for working on Hosts file:
http://hostsman.softpedia.com/