Nice work and very much appreciated.
Thanks for the continuous updates!
Quick question: have you checked the sites listed?
f.i. hidemyass.com is blocked, yet I was unaware that this is a problematic site.
I guess part of the list is also from a 'not desireable' list, perhaps used in companies. So it might be something to provide multiple such lists we can paste together to fit our needs.
thanks
All lists used are malwares and ads blocking hosts files. Sometimes these list maintainers make mistakes.
I can only check the sites I frequent. For instance- I use meebo.com and found that for whatever reason it was added to one of the lists I use to make this hosts file; it is now not blacklisted and I am in process of uploading hosts file for today. Therefore, if you find a entry that you believe shouldn't be in this list, I will gladly take it out if you give me a valid reason. I don't know what hidemyass.com is, but I'm assuming it's a proxy service; have you tried Tor? Do you like Tor if so? If you don't like Tor and prefer this site, why is this so?
-Chuck
Last edited by mellowchuck123; November 23rd, 2011 at 01:42 AM.
November 21, 2011 HOSTS file.
This is a combination of 9 up-to-date(as of this moment) lists that block ads and sites with malwares(viruses, trojans, worms etc.)
The file is optimized, sorted & is in 0.0.0.0 format.
MAKE SURE YOU COPY THE ENTIRE FILE TO /etc/hosts using root or sudo.
_DO NOT_ REPLACE THE FIRST TWO LINES IN YOUR HOSTS FILE-
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 YOUR HOST NAME GOES HERE
If you already have blocking entries, add this list to the bottom of your hosts file.
November 21, 2011 HOSTS file link:
http://ubuntuone.com/7333ex5gkroKUXKG44bfS7
Side note- You might want to install an ad-blocking extension in your browser so you don't see the annoying "page not found" error where ads were before.
Last edited by mellowchuck123; November 23rd, 2011 at 01:42 AM.
well the host file blocked my favorite flash video sites and all i really want is to block porn and also to make sure that the host file cannot be changed by any site but my own computer so i just copy and pasted the porn host file to my curent host file (of course after i made a backup of my original)Code:sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.old
then i simply chmod-ed my host file to take away the write attribute.
these lines are a good idea if you go to sites that try to hack/hijack your host file and make it point to their domain only.Code:sudo chmod a-w /etc/hosts
by having a copy of your original and then making the host file ro then you can control what sites can be accessed from your computer (i.e. facebook, google, bing, hulu, etc.)
Last edited by jmate24; November 22nd, 2011 at 10:42 AM.
If Ubuntu had 31 flavors then we could call it Baskin' Ubuntu.
Here are the 9 lists I currently use if you would like to use your own script instead and sort and update your own HOSTS file --
Code:http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip http://hphosts.gt500.org/hosts.zip http://updates.it-mate.co.uk/updates.asp http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=1&mimetype=plaintext http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts http://support.it-mate.co.uk/downloads/HOSTS.txt http://hostsfile.mine.nu/Hosts http://www.securemecca.com/Downloads/hosts.txt
Thanks for the reply!
@hidemyass:
yes, it is simply a web proxy and I sometimes use it to a) check if there is something blocking my access to a site (censor) or if it is really down and b) do the same with content, f.i. when youtube blocks content because I live in the wrong country.
Plus such a censor tool need not only be national but also company thing.
Hence why I thought it might be a 'company block list' that filters out sites you can use to avoid sites blocked by companies.
Which in some cases is fine.
@Update:
Ok, will do. Thanks!
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