Hi YoKenny - You're correct about that; however, I suspect from my
experience that there aren't that many "hidders" by comparison with the rest
of most block lists. As I posted to Data, the script speaks for itself,
does what it does, and it's utility lies in whether what that is is useful
to you as an individual. It's not my script; it dates from 2002; it's not
maintained; YMMV. I merely provided it in an effort to be (at least
partially) helpful with a particular problem that no one else appeared to be
able to address.

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



In news:5Afxb.12646$p8C.12613@news01.bloor.is.net.cab le.rogers.com,
YoKenny <YKnot@home.invalid> typed:
> Jim Byrd wrote:
>> Hi Giel - The attached .zip file contains a .vbs script which will do
>> what you want. It was developed by one of the MVPs, but hasn't been
>> published because he can't afford the time/effort to maintain it and
>> answer questions. I just received permission from him to post it -
>> thus the delay in responding to this thread. There's no Help file,
>> but it's fairly self explanatory - just move a copy of your HOSTS
>> file to the same folder where you unzip this and follow the direction
>> which will come up when you run it. You'll need to copy the resultant
>> modified HOSTS file back to where it's normally located for you. Be
>> sure to rename it to HOSTS there - all caps, no extension. Use at
>> your own risk.
>
> The use of PING to test if a site is available is good for that instant
but
> as the Internet is dynamic it is not a reliable test.
>
> Also, the spammer, scammer and p0rn sites have learned to hide themselves
> from PING probes.
> This invalidates this test and only an application that attempts to
retrieve
> active information from the site can be trusted.
>
> eg: wxw.the-huns-yellow-pages.com substitute www for wxw
> A browser hijacker site.
> === partial===================
> 11/26/03 23:53:40 Browsing http://wxw.the-huns-yellow-pages.com/
> Fetching http://wxw.the-huns-yellow-pages.com/ ...
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: wxw.the-huns-yellow-pages.com
> Connection: close
> User-Agent: Sam Spade 1.14
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:54:30 GMT
> P3P:CP="BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo"
> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
> Connection: close
> X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
> Set-Cookie: mh=MSFT; domain=.msn.com; expires=Wed, 27-Nov-2013 04:54:30
GMT;
> path=/
> Set-Cookie: MSNADS=UM=; domain=.the-huns-yellow-pages.com; expires=Tue,
> 26-Apr-2022 19:00:00 GMT; path=/
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Pragma: no-cache
> Expires: -1
> Content-Type: text/html; charse
> ==========
>
>> In news:3fc4ea92$0$1500$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl,
>> Giel <NeverSP@Mthe.net> typed:
>>> nope, its a nifty program, but it will not open my (hosts)txt-file
>>> and i don't think it can handle the syntax, but i'll keep trying
>>> though....
>>>
>>> Try my ADBlocker at http://nina.xs4all.nl/pac/
>>> "Russbucket" <Russbucket@centurytel.net> wrote in message
>>> news:sbydnbnWPqnhelmiRVn-sw@centurytel.net...
>>>> I have been using AM Deadlink (Free) available at
>>>> http://www.aignes.com/products.htm It seems to work OK.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps, I'm lazy too!
>>>>
>>>> "Giel" <NeverSP@Mthe.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:3fc4d1c5$0$1504$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>>>>> Hello, im updating my hosts file for some time now (oa thanks to
>>>>> hpguru and http://accs-net.com/hostess/).
>>>>> It really grows out of proportion and i've noticed some hosts
>>>>> don't exists anymore.
>>>>> So some cleaning would be nice.
>>>>> But im too lazy to manually check every host.
>>>>> So before i start making weird macro's;
>>>>> Does anyone know of such a program or script that connects every
>>>>> host in the file to see if it's there?