Trusthworthy "hosts" based protection

Wikis & How-to Guides
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This essentially. We need it. Android implemented it recently I believe which is good on google. Windows has yet to decide to do so. Linux sort of has it but its not native

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Yea itā€™s pretty lame that ISP attach tracking cookies on http DNS.

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They also do this to make sure they know when you have visited a sight that copyright infringes and its IP to report itā€¦ Cite COMCAST and MPAA cough The worlds shittiestā€¦ most evilā€¦ group of shit heads and ISP ever. But hey at least they are number one in being the most fucked up service in america! counts for something right!

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Tell us how you really feel :wink:

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I really despise and loathe comcast

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I got that from the last post, lol.

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Youā€™re right, @MisteryAngel was responsible for that. I apologize.

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I donā€™t see mention of hosts-file.net which can be really useful.
They host multiple hosts-files each with a different classification, Iā€™ve loaded quite a few of them myself into my PiHole.

Classifications:

  • ATS - Ad/tracking servers

This classification is assigned for domains being used for advert or tracking purposes

  • EMD - Sites engaged in malware distribution

This classification is assigned to websiteā€™s engaged in the distribution of malware (e.g. adware, spyware, trojans and viruses etc).

Sites with this classification typically either contain files (e.g. cracks, keygens, adware, spyware, trojans, viruses et al) or lead to such via (for example) ā€œfake scannersā€ or other social engineering and misleading tactics. This includes the activities of rogue Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that host other sites to which the EMD classification applies.

  • EXP - Sites engaged in the housing, development or distribution of exploits, including but not limited to exploitation of browser, software (inclusive of website software such as CMS), operating system exploits aswell as those engaged in exploits via social engineering.

Sites with this classification should NOT be loaded in a browser AT ALL.

  • FSA - Sites engaged in the selling or distribution of bogus or fraudulent applications and/or provision of fraudulent services.

All sites engaged in the selling or distribution of bogus or fraudulent software (executable or otherwise), including sites engaged in the selling or otherwise, of fraudulent services and/or products. This classification also covers sites involved in the development, promotion or selling of, comments, likes, ratings, votes or sites variations thereof, on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MyWot, Digg etc.

Ref:
http://forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1661

  • GRM - Sites engaged in astroturfing (otherwise known as grass roots marketing) or spamming

For full details on what constitues astroturfing, please see;

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Astroturfing

  • HFS - Special classification for persons caught spamming the hpHosts forums
  • HJK - Sites engaged in browser hijacking or other forms of hijacking (OS services, bandwidth, DNS, etc.)
  • MMT - Sites engaged in the use of misleading marketing tactics

This classification is assigned to sites that use misleading tactics to push applications (e.g. affiliate sites peddling a program as a free removal tool when infact itā€™s a free scan only), services or websites (e.g. a chat session that is entirely scripted in the code).

  • PHA - Sites engaged in illegal pharmacy activities
  • PSH - Sites engaged in Phishing
  • PUP - Sites engaged in the distribution of Potentially Unwanted Programs
  • WRZ - Sites engaged in the selling, distribution or provision of warez (including but not limited to keygens, serials etc), where such provisions do not contain malware
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I thought stevens black hostsā€¦ merged all of those in?

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Thats good to know.
I do use Ublock origin but i have not checked out traffic logs yet.
ĀØIfĀØ they donā€™t collect anything then that would be awesome.
However iā€™m always a bit skeptical wen it comes to browser addons.

Still i think that i might have sailed this topic to an offtopic discussion,
So i think that i should shove some comments to a new topic.
Unless @PhaseLockedLoop was okay with it.
Anyhow i will stop the discussion about Adblockers because that is not what this topic is meant for sorry.

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Ehh? I dont mind. A solid dicussion showing the pros and cons of each allows people to scroll down and make a decision formed from opinion of both sides. Probably did more good than any harm :smiley:

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