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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called
"Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to
prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
Thanks for explaining what HOSTS File Manager does beyond the other
"protection" I'm using. I have noticed no deleterious effects and using eDexter removes the irritating "action cancelled" messages. Based on what you say, guess I'll keep them. Do you also recommend DNSKong which seems to be a companion to HOSTS File Manager and eDexter? I used it for a few days, but uninstalled it as I wasn't sure of its worth. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
Haven't used any of the others besides HOSTS File Manager. HFM uses a HOSTS
file maintained by an MVP and primarily updated based upon information provided by MVPs and their closer associates. For that reason, I naturally tend to trust it a bit more than other items. I have, in the past, set up something quite similar to eDexter on my own machine when IIS (Microsoft's Internet Server) is installed. I make 127.0.0.1, the home page for such systems, a tiny image. eDexter sounds like an innocuous little app with a decent goal. As for DNSKong, I can't be certain, as I haven't read the documentation in detail, but it would appear to me to possess several possible drawbacks, to require a fair amount of understanding of how it works, tweaking, etc., and to possibly even "not play well together" with any other HOSTS based filtering. I suppose that for someone who does only the usual surfing on their machine it might be a boon (excepting that possible problem involving HOSTS file usage), but in my case it would be problematic. I would probably not recommend it to the average user, but might suggest it to a tweaker as something to try out. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... Thanks for explaining what HOSTS File Manager does beyond the other "protection" I'm using. I have noticed no deleterious effects and using eDexter removes the irritating "action cancelled" messages. Based on what you say, guess I'll keep them. Do you also recommend DNSKong which seems to be a companion to HOSTS File Manager and eDexter? I used it for a few days, but uninstalled it as I wasn't sure of its worth. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
Thanks again for your comments, Gary.
I think I'll give DNSKong a try. It claims to work well with HOSTS File Manager and if after a few weeks I detect problems, it has an uninstaller. While I'm certainly no MVP, I do enjoy "tweaking" my reliable old W98, P11 300 MHz system. By listening to people like you, Eshleman, Badour, Martell and other MVPs, I've become comfortable with serious tinkering and upgrading of my machine. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... Haven't used any of the others besides HOSTS File Manager. HFM uses a HOSTS file maintained by an MVP and primarily updated based upon information provided by MVPs and their closer associates. For that reason, I naturally tend to trust it a bit more than other items. I have, in the past, set up something quite similar to eDexter on my own machine when IIS (Microsoft's Internet Server) is installed. I make 127.0.0.1, the home page for such systems, a tiny image. eDexter sounds like an innocuous little app with a decent goal. As for DNSKong, I can't be certain, as I haven't read the documentation in detail, but it would appear to me to possess several possible drawbacks, to require a fair amount of understanding of how it works, tweaking, etc., and to possibly even "not play well together" with any other HOSTS based filtering. I suppose that for someone who does only the usual surfing on their machine it might be a boon (excepting that possible problem involving HOSTS file usage), but in my case it would be problematic. I would probably not recommend it to the average user, but might suggest it to a tweaker as something to try out. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... Thanks for explaining what HOSTS File Manager does beyond the other "protection" I'm using. I have noticed no deleterious effects and using eDexter removes the irritating "action cancelled" messages. Based on what you say, guess I'll keep them. Do you also recommend DNSKong which seems to be a companion to HOSTS File Manager and eDexter? I used it for a few days, but uninstalled it as I wasn't sure of its worth. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
Check out MVP Mike Burgess' http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
-- HTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/...y/spyware.mspx bobster wrote: Thanks for explaining what HOSTS File Manager does beyond the other "protection" I'm using. I have noticed no deleterious effects and using eDexter removes the irritating "action cancelled" messages. Based on what you say, guess I'll keep them. Do you also recommend DNSKong which seems to be a companion to HOSTS File Manager and eDexter? I used it for a few days, but uninstalled it as I wasn't sure of its worth. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
Thanks PA Bear for the Mike Burgess URL. I was inadvertently destroying my
host file by running CW Shredder. Wondered what the heck the "Removed from your system: - CWS.Jksearch" message was all about and fortunately found out! Now I restore the host file AFTER running CW Shredder. Also use AdAware so I now put the hosts files on "ignore" after a run to keep from destroying them. "PA Bear" wrote in message ... Check out MVP Mike Burgess' http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm -- HTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/...y/spyware.mspx bobster wrote: Thanks for explaining what HOSTS File Manager does beyond the other "protection" I'm using. I have noticed no deleterious effects and using eDexter removes the irritating "action cancelled" messages. Based on what you say, guess I'll keep them. Do you also recommend DNSKong which seems to be a companion to HOSTS File Manager and eDexter? I used it for a few days, but uninstalled it as I wasn't sure of its worth. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
I basically work around any HOSTS file disruptors by running HFM on a
scheduled basis (every hour and at startup), using the /u switch. When I remember, I also run it from a shortcut in my QuickLaunch bar (also with the /u switch) after running scans. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... Thanks PA Bear for the Mike Burgess URL. I was inadvertently destroying my host file by running CW Shredder. Wondered what the heck the "Removed from your system: - CWS.Jksearch" message was all about and fortunately found out! Now I restore the host file AFTER running CW Shredder. Also use AdAware so I now put the hosts files on "ignore" after a run to keep from destroying them. "PA Bear" wrote in message ... Check out MVP Mike Burgess' http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm -- HTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/...y/spyware.mspx bobster wrote: Thanks for explaining what HOSTS File Manager does beyond the other "protection" I'm using. I have noticed no deleterious effects and using eDexter removes the irritating "action cancelled" messages. Based on what you say, guess I'll keep them. Do you also recommend DNSKong which seems to be a companion to HOSTS File Manager and eDexter? I used it for a few days, but uninstalled it as I wasn't sure of its worth. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Gary, probably a dumb question, but what is the /u switch and how do I use
it? All I can find is a note in Q116181 stating" /u:upi Specify UPI" and I don't know what that means and how it applies to the HOSTS file disruptor problem. I also have HOSTS set on my quick launch bar and check for HOST updates daily or anytime after I have run AdAware or CW Shredder TIA. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... I basically work around any HOSTS file disruptors by running HFM on a scheduled basis (every hour and at startup), using the /u switch. When I remember, I also run it from a shortcut in my QuickLaunch bar (also with the /u switch) after running scans. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... Thanks PA Bear for the Mike Burgess URL. I was inadvertently destroying my host file by running CW Shredder. Wondered what the heck the "Removed from your system: - CWS.Jksearch" message was all about and fortunately found out! Now I restore the host file AFTER running CW Shredder. Also use AdAware so I now put the hosts files on "ignore" after a run to keep from destroying them. "PA Bear" wrote in message ... Check out MVP Mike Burgess' http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm -- HTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/...y/spyware.mspx bobster wrote: Thanks for explaining what HOSTS File Manager does beyond the other "protection" I'm using. I have noticed no deleterious effects and using eDexter removes the irritating "action cancelled" messages. Based on what you say, guess I'll keep them. Do you also recommend DNSKong which seems to be a companion to HOSTS File Manager and eDexter? I used it for a few days, but uninstalled it as I wasn't sure of its worth. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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Hosts File Manager, eDexter
Switches are built into applications to affect the way they run. While there
are conventions for naming switches, they aren't hard and fast rules. The particular switch does whatever the designer of the application wants it to. Except for applications written by Microsoft,. you aren't going to find any information on switches in the KB. In this case, MVP George Geyde, who wrote HOSTS File Manager, added a /u switch to his application, intending it to stand for "unattended". It does its thing with no interaction required after starting it--no messages or queries to which you have to respond. Switches are used everywhere in Windows, as in DOS. Just how they're used depends, again, on the application. You can often use a command prompt to find out what they are by typing in the /? (Help) switch after the command. Unfortunately, the /? switch, itself, isn't universally included in apps. One thing to remember when creating shortcuts that use switches, or Registry entries, etc., is that when a long pathname is used (one that isn't in DOS 8.3 format), that pathname often needs to be in quotes. The switch is *not* included inside the quotes, but rather comes after. Example: "C:\Program Files\HOSTS File Manager\HostsManager.exe" /u -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... Gary, probably a dumb question, but what is the /u switch and how do I use it? All I can find is a note in Q116181 stating" /u:upi Specify UPI" and I don't know what that means and how it applies to the HOSTS file disruptor problem. I also have HOSTS set on my quick launch bar and check for HOST updates daily or anytime after I have run AdAware or CW Shredder TIA. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... I basically work around any HOSTS file disruptors by running HFM on a scheduled basis (every hour and at startup), using the /u switch. When I remember, I also run it from a shortcut in my QuickLaunch bar (also with the /u switch) after running scans. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... Thanks PA Bear for the Mike Burgess URL. I was inadvertently destroying my host file by running CW Shredder. Wondered what the heck the "Removed from your system: - CWS.Jksearch" message was all about and fortunately found out! Now I restore the host file AFTER running CW Shredder. Also use AdAware so I now put the hosts files on "ignore" after a run to keep from destroying them. "PA Bear" wrote in message ... Check out MVP Mike Burgess' http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm -- HTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/...y/spyware.mspx bobster wrote: Thanks for explaining what HOSTS File Manager does beyond the other "protection" I'm using. I have noticed no deleterious effects and using eDexter removes the irritating "action cancelled" messages. Based on what you say, guess I'll keep them. Do you also recommend DNSKong which seems to be a companion to HOSTS File Manager and eDexter? I used it for a few days, but uninstalled it as I wasn't sure of its worth. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The idea behind disallowing the addresses listed in the HOSTS file is to prevent those known purveyors of parasites from dropping undesirable items into your system and/or executing undesirable code. While it is great to have the cleaners and blockers in your system, they all depend on "definitions" and there is always a lag between the launch of some new parasite and the "definitions" being updated to account for them. Thus, blocking those addresses adds a forward fence, if you will, that prevents the sites from installing *anything*. Plus, you are preventing additional bandwidth usage and potential problems from attempts to execute otherwise acceptable Active-X, etc. I use the same programs your listed, and they regularly found and cleaned up a lot of things whenever I ran them (SpywareBlaster being a different case.) But it wasn't until I started using the HOSTS File Manager that I noticed a drop to near zero of parasites that make it in in the first place, all while doing nothing to limit the rest of IE's functionalities. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "bobster" wrote in message ... At the suggestion of a poster on this net, I downloaded a program called "Hosts File Manager". It disallows many advertisements but leaves an "action cancelled" message in the white space left by the absence of the advertisement. Another program called "eDexter", which I have installed, was suggested to remove the "action cancelled" . They both seem to be doing the job they claim to do. Question: Has anybody had experience with these programs? Are they useful or are they just fluff? Do they provide added protection? I am using W98, Zone Alarm, AdAware, SpyBot S&D, Spyware Blaster and myEtrust anti-virus, all regularly updated.. |
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