~BD~ wrote:

> FromTheRafters wrote:
>> It's just a hosts file, people can choose as they wish.
>
> They can indeed, but ......
>
> Because of its role
[snip stuff available at a link that BD doesn't understand]

>> It's funny though that someone who claims to be an MVP
>> has his own sites blocked by the MVP's hosts file.
>
> The evidence suggests that TRT is *not* a *Microsoft* MVP

The evidence 'suggests' that The Fake Truth is a *thief*. Why do you
keep bringing up the subject of Butts? The whole world knows he is a
thief; why won't *you* believe it?

> Btw, *this* site http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm *has nothing to
> do with Microsoft* - it says so at the bottom of the page! Viz:
>
> "Microsoft and or MVPS.org are in no way affiliated with, nor offers
> endorsement of, this site."
>
> Strangely, there is no mention of a Hosts file either here
> http://mvps.org/ or here http://mvps.org/links.html

If you were smart, you would know that many MVPs have their own
individual sub-domains at mvps.org, and only the 'winhelp2002' site
is the one that deals with the HOSTS file.

> AFAIK, there's no way to determine whether or not good guys or *bad*
> guys are in charge of producing the download at this URL

Only in your slimy paranoiac brain.

> http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm I suppose it is *impossible*
> for one to be downloading more than one bargained for, eh? Out of
> interest, exactly who checks?

Read the damn file.

> "Malwarebytes recently completed the acquisition of hpHosts, a
> popular and trusted blacklist of malicious websites, ad servers and
> tracking servers." See http://www.hosts-file.net/
>
> Does anyone know why Malwarebytes didn't opt to utilise the MVPs
> Hosts file instead?

They don't want to *steal* it like ButtFace did.

> Food for thought? (or just ridicule?)

In your case: ridicule (of yourself).

--
-bts
-May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your narrowboat