Well, i don't think you are the one to tell me to get learning, however,
some of the negativaties you write are truth.
susch as other programs that don't use IE's connection, but browsers getting
slow????that can never be truth.
And as you may have noticed as you actually browsed my site (although im
still in the process of translating) i'm hosting a hosts-file bigger then
700MB, kept up-to-date using this newsgroop.
I never claimed it stopped all the spyware, i think even spybot cannot make
such claim.
but now you mention it, i will link spybot on the site aswell!

Anyway, i'm just a little troubled intresting people in this, and im afraid
people, allready a bit causious, will not be using it as you keep beeing so
negative about my "SPAM"-like way to announce it.


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How 'bout uploading me a beter one here:
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Like all cool services at giel's, this is free and continues as long as it
does not constipates my connections.
"sponge" <yosponge@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8d76ec03.0310262040.7a913c48@posting.google.c om...
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:15:42 +0100, "Giel" <NeverSP@Mthe.net> wrote:
>
> >Not only is the edexter PAC-script a laughing matter, it seems not so
> save
> >acording to this user:
> >http://asp.flaaten.dk/proxo/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1610
>
> The only thing I like about yours has over eDexter's is the ability to
> bypass it from the browser and its recency. Granted, the eDexter PAC
> is a bit out of date, but it still works well. I've been tweaking mine
> a bit, and others have posted ones here as well that are excellent. Of
> course, the issue is mostly moot here because so many of us use
> Proxomitron and non-IE browsers.
> Both your and eDexter's PAC files really slow the browser down, much
> more so than Proxo. Plus, Giel, you need to learn how proxies work and
> what their limitations are: you'd know that local proxies are
> completely useless against applications that do not use them. (FWIW,
> that's a limitation in Proxomitron, too.) In other words, spyware that
> connects directly to the net rather than via browser hijack won't be
> stopped -- this is why HOSTS or DNSKong is the preferred method, and
> why you don't see PAC used much. That's why I've been pitching these
> and other methods and not PAC. So don't go making the claims that it's
> a "spyware stopper", because it's not.
> In as far as that link goes, thanks for it, but you really, really
> need to take a course in firewalls and networking basics before
> posting. The reason why the firewall will flag an attempt to contact
> eDexter from outside is because eDexter acts as a virtual web server
> to serve up pixel images to replace blocked ads. In other words, it
> runs on port 80. So, if you get an incoming request to port 80 on your
> machine (9 times out of 10 it's somebody running KaZaa), the firewall
> will think it's meant for eDexter. It's a non-issue even if you don't
> run a firewall since eDexter only accepts connections from localhost
> and non-routable addresses, and even if it didn't there is no
> appreciable vulnerability in the thing. You can see this behavior in
> any programs that runs as a server.
>
> Sponge
> Sponge's Secure Solutions
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