Re: [PCWorks] A tip for stopping annoying harassing "slide-ups" (a kind of pop-up) immune to pop-up blockers
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:21:17 -0600
(John for some reason I'm unable to receive your posts, I
emailed you off-list about this. I found this post of yours in
the archives).
Interesting you mention a Wiki URL, here's where it talks about
malware modifying the hosts file:
http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Blocking_Malware_and_Advertisements_Safely
So it is indeed "possible", but I don't see the point of it
because why would malware want to PREVENT you from getting
online? Unless it's just "annoying" malware, because if you
can't get online to websites, then the malware can't exploit
the PC. It's just not "lucrative" for malware to have that
kind of agenda, but that of course doesn't mean it doesn't
exist, it just doesn't make sense.....but then again a lot of
malware doesn't make sense. It's just another form of
cyber-terrorism by true definition when malware simply starts
erasing your HD for example, the creator of the malware gains
nothing from that but the joy of terrorizing the victim.
But at any rate, it's not a waste of time because of course not
every kind will do this, only rare forms of malware will, so if
it's read-only it's still going to be MUCH safer. It's logical
to leave it read-only so it will be a safe as possible.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "John O'Flynn"
Some people are finding HostsMan useful.
http://www.abelhadigital.com/ I haven't had time to check it
out, but as I understand it, it alows you to combine hosts
lists from various sources (eg MVPS) and takes care of
duplicates.
There is some good info and a list of custom hosts files here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
I read somewhere but can't remember where, that setting the
hosts file to read only is a waste of time because some of the
newer malware can simply undo this setting and tamper with it.
John
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