Al Bundy wrote:
> Still getting my feet wet on spyware tools. Without starting a range
> war, does it make sense to combine the frequently posted files below
> into the HOSTS file?

Does not hurt.

> It seems that the Hostess tool I got via this ng would do a slick job
> of it. Are there draw backs to doing this?

No. It does its job of adding new and not adding duplicates nicely.

> Everyone has their favorites but like it's often said in this group,
> no one source is a total solution for spyware.
>
> http://mvps.org/
> http://webpages.charter.net/hpguru/hosts

And IE-SPYAD
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#IESPYAD