"bob brozewicz" <brozewicz.rf@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:kSEHh.455$mh.106@trnddc05...
> Far Canal wrote:
> > bob brozewicz wrote
> >
> >> Mr. Slow wrote:
> >>> "bob brozewicz" <brozewicz.rf@verizon.net> wrote in message
> >>> news:fpAHh.14366$zh.9487@trnddc08...
> >>>> any suggestion on which product to use?
> >>>>
> >>>> bob brozewicz
> >>> A popular and widely used HOSTS file is this one,
> >>>
> >>> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip
> >>>
> >>>
> >> thanks for the reply. i was looking at this and hostsman.
> >>
> >> any opinion which may be better.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hostsman comes with links to mvps and two other hosts lists - Mikes and
> > hphosts. I'd be careful about these, they appear to add any site
> > without doing much checking and you could find yourself unable to access
> > a lot of innocent sites.
> >
> >
> appreciate the concern of not checking sites before they are added to
> the hosts file. i used one, if not both (not at the same time) of these
> a while back and had issues with the dns service in xp and removed them.
>
> id rather block sites and if i have access issues remove the entries
> from the hosts file.

I have used the MVPS file for some years, without problem. I'd recommend it.
Remember to disable the DNS Client in Win2K/WinXP. HostsMan can do this for
you, and update the HOSTS file.

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

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