On 15/05/13 19:53, Eric wrote:
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.

oh FFS the reason DNS was INVENTED was to get rid of hosts files.

run your own DNS server and put the blacklists into that.

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



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