Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts
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Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts
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Re: Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts
#2A tech as old as Kazaa lite. But people like to use heavy ram chrome browser extension to do the same thing.
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#3Works good for blocking fake news and sites you don’t want your elderly parents getting tangled with.
Re: Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts
#4A tech as old as Kazaa lite. But people like to use heavy ram chrome browser extension to do the same thing.
It's not the same thing, browser extensions can block at a much more granular level than entire hostnames.
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#5https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.B...
Don't forget about hosts.deny (but you probably need it at your router if you are behind one).
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#6Didn’t work well for me last time I tried, I think entire IPv4 stopped for ~5min on each reboot with this.
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#7To ensure there are no nefarious redirects in such a massive list, this one-liner comes in handy[1]:
grep -v '#' steves_hosts | awk '{print $1}'| sort | uniq -c
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#8Didn’t work well for me last time I tried, I think entire IPv4 stopped for ~5min on each reboot with this.
To resolve in Windows 10[1]: Disable DNS Client by changing the value data for HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Dnscache\Start from 2 (automatic) to 4 (disabled) (recent versions of Windows 10 no longer allow disabling DNS Client via services.msc).
[1] https://tinyapps.org/blog/201809300700_large_hosts_file.html
Re: Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts
#9https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.B... Don't forget about hosts.deny (but you probably need it at your router if you are behind one).
Shell scripts that download more shell scripts. Kind of terrifying, no? I feel like I would personally rather take my chances getting scammed out of a CS skin than running these installers as root at will.
Re: Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts
#10This is the default list used by the pihole project as well; it's a very good list.
FWIW, something like ublock origin is going to be better for in-browser blocking (for example, DNS poisoning won't work with youtube ads, which are served from youtube.com, but addins like UBO can remove them because they can hook into the actual traffic).
The ultimate adblocking solution is to use UBO in your browsers AND spin up a pihole to block ads on your entire network: https://pi-hole.net/