"louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> I'm getting sick and tired of removing the same tracking cookies everytime
> I run an antispyware program.
>
> So I started looking at the host file at mvp.org. But the notes say that
> any hosts file larger than 135kb will slow down win XP. The MVP hosts
> file is almost 500 kb.
>
> What should one do? Might I just add the things that are consistently
> picked up in my antispyware? Is there a smaller hosts file that is still
> considered valuable?
>
> I'm running FF 2.0 about 95% of the time with noscript and adblockplus -
> but I still collect all these tracking cookies.....
>
> Help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Louise

I'm running the large host file and don't notice any slowdown. Give it a
try. Back up the old one just in case, but I doubt you'll notice a
difference.


Bob