| Author | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Grok | I have a couple hundred (at least) entries in my hosts file. Dozens from hitbox.com sites for hit tracking from espn, microsoft, vmware, etc. Anyone know a quick and free way to resolve all subdomains of a domain to 0.0.0.0? I'd like to do this but it doesn't have any effect: # hosts entries 0.0.0.0 *.hitbox.com 0.0.0.0 *.adserver.com # end of file | February 17, 2006, 9:50 PM |
| iago | I use the "adblock" extension for firefox, which supports wildcard blocks. It doesn't affect spyware, of course, but it's a good start for blocking ads. There's a second extension you can get that automatically updates the adblock list with a recommended list. Since I started using that, I haven't seen a single ad, so I'm pretty impressed. Another option, which is system-wide is to run your own DNS server and keep up with the DNS-blackhole list, which is an actively maintained list of Spyware/Adware/Worm addresses (plus instructions on how to use it with bind or windows). That'll block it straight from the DNS server. | February 17, 2006, 10:01 PM |
| Grok | I like the DNS blackhole list. Time to run my own DNS and install that. Thanks iago, great idea. | February 17, 2006, 10:13 PM |
| iago | You're welcome. Let me know how well this works, I was thinking of installing bind but never got around to it. | February 18, 2006, 7:22 AM |
| Trance | Yeah, I'd like to know how this goes too. I tried to send a lot of those sites into a blackhole with my hosts file but of course that didn't work =/ | February 18, 2006, 8:29 AM |
| iago | You'd have to convert the list into a format useable by hosts. I'm not sure how you'd do that on Windows, but a quick awk script would work in Linux | February 18, 2006, 4:20 PM |
| Kp | A quick awk script would work on Windows too, once you download a Windows port of awk. :) You might be able to get one from the GNUwin32, UnixUtils, or Cygwin projects. | February 18, 2006, 5:26 PM |