Not sure if this is the place to post this, but here goes.
Has anyone here heard of or used Proxomitron? I have been for a few years now.
"For those who have not yet been introduced, meet the Proxomitron: a free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy."
It has many features, and is very highly configurable. In the FAq here I got to reading about host files, and never realy had a use for them, since Proxomitron has a URL Kill feature, where you can enter urls that Ptron will filter, wildcards are allowed! Also in the Faq I followed a link to a site that mentioned large host files may slow down things in win2k using a dialup connection, which is what I use. Instead of messing with host files, I have simply modified the host files linked in the Faq, (removed the 127.0.0.1 before the urls) and pasted it into Ptrons url Killfile. So far, the host file from the Faq with over 1400 verified sites has not slowed anything down for me. Using the wildcards should dramatically shorten the list, ie the doubleclick urls. Wonderfull little program, just extract to a folder and fire it up. Set your browser to 127.0.0.1 and go. FAR to many other filters and options for me to even begin to describe them. In the last few years I have used it, it has NEVER crashed on me once. I have run it on Win98se and now win2k. And oh yeah, its free, always has been. I think I read on the Authors old site some time back, his filter technology was used by AdAware when it first was released. Fast and lean. Hope its of some use to anyone here.
Later..
Edit
In the last six hours of surfin' task manager shows Proxomitron 16 seconds of cpu time.
