Brand-new Hosts file - will nail all the ads, spyware, improve your bandwidth, etc.....

[Arfur]

I now have an 11,500-line hosts file.
( Started reviewing my old one and couldn't stop - ended up increasing
it by 10x after about 2 days' work trawling through the Security
sites)

My bandwidth is no longer being pummelled by advertising and other
crap I don't want to see.

Especially useful to nail that 2% of PCs on your network that use 25%
of your internet bandwidth......stick my Hosts file on them to sort
them out.......

Here is a tiny snippet: (If you want the whole thing....I can ftp it
to you if you want, or something...I don't imagine 11,500 lines would
go down too well here....)

ads.vitalix.net #[images.accessmedia.tv][Trojan.Muvipaz]
ads.vnuemedia.com
ads.wanadooregie.com
ads.weather.ca
ads.weather.com
ads.web.aol.com
ads.web.cs.com
ads.web.de
ads.web21.com
ads.webads360.com #[IE-SpyAd]
ads.webattack.com
ads.webfever.kadserver.com
ads.webheat.com
ads.webhosting.info
ads.webmastersdirect.com
ads.webnet.advance.net
ads.webshots.com
ads.websponsors.com
ads.whi.co.nz
ads.winsite.com
ads.wunderground.com #[SecuritySpace.WebBug]
ads.x10.com #[SpySweeper.Spy.Cookie]
ads.x10.net
ads.xbiz.com
ads.xtra.co.nz
ads.yadio.com
ads.yazzle.net
ads.ynot.com
ads.yourfreedvds.com
ads.zdnet.com
ads.zebest-3000.net.kadserver.com
ads.zedo.com #[McAfee.Cookie-Zedo]
ads.zone-media.com #[Troj/Swizzor-CN][TROJ_SWIZZOR.EJ]
ads.z-quest.com
ads0.revenue.net
ads001.webwombat.com.au
ads05.bpath.com
ads05.freecity.de
ads06.bpath.com
ads07.bpath.com #[SunBelt.BPath.com]
ads08.bpath.com
ads09.bpath.com
ads1.activeagent.at

[Fred Dagg]

On 2 Mar 2007 01:32:54 -0800, "Arfur" <arthur_brain1@yahoo.co.uk>
exclaimed:

>I now have an 11,500-line hosts file.
>( Started reviewing my old one and couldn't stop - ended up increasing
>it by 10x after about 2 days' work trawling through the Security
>sites)

Wow, you've got WAY too much time on your hands...


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"People should take responsibility for their actions"

- (Leftist) Matty F (7/1/2007), when explaining it was actually the quadbiker's
fault that he was brutally murdered by Graeme Burton. According to Matty F,
it was his fault that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time...



Best Rant of the Year Award:

"Interesting to see the Green ******* even at a supermarket shopping, instead
of living off the land growing his own food. At least he's helped to keep the
cogs and polution of industry going by shopping at supermarkets which sell
products from large filthy factories [that] use stinking diesel trucks
polluting the damn countryside just to get the goods to Nandor's favourite
supermarket. Well done Nandor you two faced tax paid good for nothing *******"

- E. Scrooge (1/3/2007), a little unhappy about the Green's proposal to ban
supermarket bags...

[Kadaitcha Man]

Arfur <arthur_brain1@yahoo.co.uk> Thou very devil incardinate. Thou most
simple clown. Thou meanest groom. Thou loggerheaded, grease-covered
devil incarnate. Ye stage-whispered and ye trilled:

> I now have an 11,500-line hosts file.
> ( Started reviewing my old one and couldn't stop - ended up increasing
> it by 10x after about 2 days' work trawling through the Security
> sites)

2 days trawling through the security sites, huh...

> My bandwidth is no longer being pummelled by advertising and other
> crap I don't want to see.
>
> Especially useful to nail that 2% of PCs on your network that use 25%
> of your internet bandwidth......stick my Hosts file on them to sort
> them out.......
>
> Here is a tiny snippet: (If you want the whole thing....I can ftp it
> to you if you want, or something...I don't imagine 11,500 lines would
> go down too well here....)
>
> ads.vitalix.net #[images.accessmedia.tv][Trojan.Muvipaz]

<SNIP>

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

# This MVPS HOSTS file is a free download from: #
# http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/ #
# #

<minor snip>

127.0.0.1 localhost

#start of lines added by WinHelp2002
# [Misc A - Z]
127.0.0.1 ad.a8.net
127.0.0.1 asy.a8ww.net

<skipped, over 14600 lines>

127.0.0.1 www.mommaporn.com
127.0.0.1 www.pokemonporn.us #[Zango]
127.0.0.1 www.wwe-divas.org
127.0.0.1 servedby.xcelltech.com
127.0.0.1 www.xcelltech.com
#end of lines added by WinHelp2002

14636 lines. Less than 1 second to download.

Dumb****.

--
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September 2005, April 2006, January 2007.

Vescere puter subgalia meis.

"Now I know what it is. Now I know what it means when an
alt.usenet.kook x-post shows up."
AOK in news:ermdlu$nli$1@registered.motzarella.org

[Mr. Arnold]

Arfur wrote:

<snipped>

You seem to be out of control here with this cross posting.

[Kadaitcha Man]

Mr. Arnold <"Mr. Arnold"@Arnold.COM> Thou skainsmate. Thou inbreed. Thou
mad mustachio purple-hued maltworm. Thou rotten, dense anointed
sovereign of sighs and groans. Ye expectorated and ye fabricated:

> Arfur wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
> You seem to be out of control here with this cross posting.

...said the ****wit cross-poster.

<chucks bone>
FETCH!

--
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September 2005, April 2006, January 2007.

Vescere puter subgalia meis.

"Now I know what it is. Now I know what it means when an
alt.usenet.kook x-post shows up."
AOK in news:ermdlu$nli$1@registered.motzarella.org

[Icy Wiener]

Arfur wrote:
> I now have an 11,500-line hosts file.
> ( Started reviewing my old one and couldn't stop - ended up increasing
> it by 10x after about 2 days' work trawling through the Security
> sites)
>
> My bandwidth is no longer being pummelled by advertising and other
> crap I don't want to see.
>
> Especially useful to nail that 2% of PCs on your network that use 25%
> of your internet bandwidth......stick my Hosts file on them to sort
> them out.......
>
> Here is a tiny snippet: (If you want the whole thing....I can ftp it
> to you if you want, or something...I don't imagine 11,500 lines would
> go down too well here....)
>
> ads.vitalix.net #[images.accessmedia.tv][Trojan.Muvipaz]
> ads.vnuemedia.com
> ads.wanadooregie.com
> ads.weather.ca
> ads.weather.com
> ads.web.aol.com
> ads.web.cs.com
> ads.web.de
> ads.web21.com
> ads.webads360.com #[IE-SpyAd]
> ads.webattack.com
> ads.webfever.kadserver.com
> ads.webheat.com
> ads.webhosting.info
> ads.webmastersdirect.com
> ads.webnet.advance.net
> ads.webshots.com
> ads.websponsors.com
> ads.whi.co.nz
> ads.winsite.com
> ads.wunderground.com #[SecuritySpace.WebBug]
> ads.x10.com #[SpySweeper.Spy.Cookie]
> ads.x10.net
> ads.xbiz.com
> ads.xtra.co.nz
> ads.yadio.com
> ads.yazzle.net
> ads.ynot.com
> ads.yourfreedvds.com
> ads.zdnet.com
> ads.zebest-3000.net.kadserver.com
> ads.zedo.com #[McAfee.Cookie-Zedo]
> ads.zone-media.com #[Troj/Swizzor-CN][TROJ_SWIZZOR.EJ]
> ads.z-quest.com
> ads0.revenue.net
> ads001.webwombat.com.au
> ads05.bpath.com
> ads05.freecity.de
> ads06.bpath.com
> ads07.bpath.com #[SunBelt.BPath.com]
> ads08.bpath.com
> ads09.bpath.com
> ads1.activeagent.at
>

You really a DNS server like (Gasp) Bind or (Double Gasp) MS DNS
Just block the entire domain bpath.com, the parasites constantly
change the names of servers

[Icy Wiener]

Arfur wrote:
> I now have an 11,500-line hosts file.
> ( Started reviewing my old one and couldn't stop - ended up increasing
> it by 10x after about 2 days' work trawling through the Security
> sites)
>
> My bandwidth is no longer being pummelled by advertising and other
> crap I don't want to see.
>
> Especially useful to nail that 2% of PCs on your network that use 25%
> of your internet bandwidth......stick my Hosts file on them to sort
> them out.......
>
> Here is a tiny snippet: (If you want the whole thing....I can ftp it
> to you if you want, or something...I don't imagine 11,500 lines would
> go down too well here....)
>
> ads.vitalix.net #[images.accessmedia.tv][Trojan.Muvipaz]
> ads.vnuemedia.com
> ads.wanadooregie.com
> ads.weather.ca
> ads.weather.com
> ads.web.aol.com
> ads.web.cs.com
> ads.web.de
> ads.web21.com
> ads.webads360.com #[IE-SpyAd]
> ads.webattack.com
> ads.webfever.kadserver.com
> ads.webheat.com
> ads.webhosting.info
> ads.webmastersdirect.com
> ads.webnet.advance.net
> ads.webshots.com
> ads.websponsors.com
> ads.whi.co.nz
> ads.winsite.com
> ads.wunderground.com #[SecuritySpace.WebBug]
> ads.x10.com #[SpySweeper.Spy.Cookie]
> ads.x10.net
> ads.xbiz.com
> ads.xtra.co.nz
> ads.yadio.com
> ads.yazzle.net
> ads.ynot.com
> ads.yourfreedvds.com
> ads.zdnet.com
> ads.zebest-3000.net.kadserver.com
> ads.zedo.com #[McAfee.Cookie-Zedo]
> ads.zone-media.com #[Troj/Swizzor-CN][TROJ_SWIZZOR.EJ]
> ads.z-quest.com
> ads0.revenue.net
> ads001.webwombat.com.au
> ads05.bpath.com
> ads05.freecity.de
> ads06.bpath.com
> ads07.bpath.com #[SunBelt.BPath.com]
> ads08.bpath.com
> ads09.bpath.com
> ads1.activeagent.at
>

You really need a DNS server like (Gasp) Bind or (Double Gasp) MS DNS
Just block the entire domain bpath.com, the parasites constantly
change the names of servers

[Vanguard]

"Arfur" <arthur_brain1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1172827974.564765.309110@t69g2000cwt.googlegr oups.com...
>I now have an 11,500-line hosts file.
<snip>

Note: For reply, newsgroups header with UNRELATED groups for
cross-posted message trimmed from:
canb.general,aus.computers,nz.comp,comp.security.f irewalls,alt.privacy.spyware
to:
alt.privacy.spyware
The fact that the OP cannot figure what are related newsgroups for a
cross-posted message makes suspect the quality of his block list.

Hosts files are worthless except maybe for lazy newbies. The MVP hosts
file had something like 72 entries just for DoubleClick back a couple
months ago when I checked it. The ad site can allow a connect to their
web or other server no matter which hostname you use for their domain;
that is, the hostname is bogus and any hostname will permit a connect.
When you retrieve a web page with a link to the ad site, a server-side
script generates a random string for the hostname. Your hosts file
would be ridiculously huge to cover all possible permutations of a
hostname. The hosts file requires a a fully qualified host
(hostname.domain.tld[.cctld]). You can't wildcard nor can you specify
just domains. You are also delegating the responsibility of filtering
hosts to someone else that composed the huge hosts file because rare few
users will bother to review the entire list.

Too many times I hear users ***** about not being to display a site
after they started using a hosts file (composed by someone else). The
site can see whether or not you yanked their images. You download their
page, you block a retrieve of an image, they can see that, so they
refuse to show you the rest of THEIR web page because you refuse to see
all their content. Also, if they use Flash, your choice is to either
see it ALL or see none of it (unless they decide to provide an alternate
non-Flash page). Since Flash will stream the content to you from one
server, you can't block any content delivered within that stream unless
you block the entire stream which then makes you look stupid for going
to that site in the first place if you know you won't see any of it.
It's their web page. If you don't want to see their content, including
the ads, then just don't go there anymore. The site may only exist due
to advertising to pay for the costs of the resources to provide that web
site. You visiting there to consume their resources but blocking the
ads which generates the revenue needed to support that site makes YOU
the abuser, not them. If a site has way too much advertising for my
taste, it really isn't that hard a decision to not go there anymore.

[Maximum Dog]

Vegetable Plow a hag wrote:

<I am not even going to bother with K-Hag.>

<You two homeless, sleepless and tired hags posting from a public
library, both of you lunatics need to pull some medicated Cat Chow out
of your purses and eat. Then you two hags after you're medicated on the
Cat Chow can lay down and go to sleep for awhile. Maybe, you both should
eat a couple of cases of the medicated chow and end your worthless lives.>

[Arfur]

Kadaitcha Man wrote:

> 14636 lines. Less than 1 second to download.

> Dumb****.

That list contains duplications.

Mine doesn't.