goarilla <"kevin DOT paulus AT skynet DOT be"> wrote in news:47280037$0
$22317$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be:

> Dustin Cook wrote:
>> "Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in
>> news:5olhodFnfd9dU1@mid.dfncis.de:
>>
>>> Max M.Wachtel III wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> MVPS hosts file
>>>>> A very bad start for a proposedly good start. What should this
>>>>> **** be good for, other than ****ing up the system?
>>>> what???? a good hosts file doesn't f*ckup anything.
>>>
>>> It does. It slows down the resolver and, in case of Windows, even
>>> partitially breaks it. Aside from that, it's simply superfluos.
>>>
>>> Even further, it simply doesn't work, as a normal user doesn't have
>>> write access to the HOSTS file, and doesn't have the privilege to
>>> restart the system either - neither would this be reasonable.
>>
>> On Vista, no. On XP and down, a normal user usually is an
administrator
>> and does have write access by default. You don't need to restart the
>> system to take advantage. Windows will access the host file anytime it
>> sees a dns request...*shrug*
>>
>>>>> This is not even a solution at all.
>>>> what do you use?
>>>
>>> A real solution: a global non-exec policy enforced by the kernel.
>>
>> So you practice safe hex and use a limited account for most of your
day
>> to day tasks right?
>>
>>> Any added software increases complexity and therefore decreases
>>> security. Unless it can actually justify this, it is a bad thing.
>>> Spyware scanners definitely are bad, and this immunization stuff has
>>> only one purpose: ****ing up the system.
>>
>> I write a spyware scanner, so I'm very interested in why you feel they
>> are bad?
>>
>>>> Why do you say anything is broken????
>>>
>>> Because it usually is. Just like your concept.
>>
>> Can you explain further please?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> what's up with this 'practice safe hex' fad ?
>

It's a neat buzzword?


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