I'm sorry Bubba1, no need to point out certain points of your posts in bold, let's stay simple and cool, if you want to access that site, you will have to exclude it because I ain't gonna remove it right now ... and FYI Spyware Shield isn't the only reason atm.

Thanks Kim,

The bolding and underline was not meant to be disrepectful or to point out certain points. I'm sure you have seen folks posting a few bold items before and they were not always done necessarily to point out certain items

In any case....as for excluding it I will be glad to pass this on to those who have asked about it. I personally do not use a Hosts file. The info I was attempting to find out was for the benefit of those that posted in the below thread on another Forum.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=101201

If and\or when you are able to expound on the reasons that would be great. If your not able to I'll understand.

Regards,
Bubba

Hello Bubba,

I often don't appreciate vague information about domain names to start with. Spyware Shield is and remains a very common name (first result is acronis in Google). To me it's still a Spyblaster ripoff ... no matter what excuses are presented. Futhermore, there ain't 40 ways to set the killbit for ActiveX controls, how would you feel if Microsoft was selling you the KB article on how to set the killbit for ActiveX controls for 10 bucks ? I just can't accept this kinda attitude. Let's even go a little bit further, everyone can use a HOSTS file (no 40 ways to set up that neither), what if peeps started to "sell" updates to the Hosts file ?? Or sell the Hosts Managers out on the web ??

Now, to stay on track, that wasn't the only reason why I did add the domain mntolympus.org to the hosts file, I remember I came accross the IP or the domain in a different context (might have been a reverse lookup from the IP) - That IP does hosts 2583 websites ... lol

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jhtml - you will have to type in the domain tho ...

Thank You Kim for that further explanation.

I added the site to level2 as he threatened us and he has software for sale on the net.

He has also slandered us on his site, this will not be tolerated. Thats part of the rules, guess he should have read the last persons thread that tried to threaten us. We can block who we want, no court can tell us not to.





You sealed your fate with that. Bluetack is 100% against that type of thing and you slandered us. Your IP will be in many peeps lists permanently in a few hours. Hope you feel you handled yourself in a professional manor, but we all know you did not.

Seems fitting to put him in level2

firstaid

ok , I agree Phant0m's attitude towards us in general , and towards kim on his site was not the best way to go if he was serious about getting his site taken out , but it's too late to go back now..

Based simply on the facts of his site , without taking into account the personal attacks from phant0m , I dont think the site should be blocked and hopefully we can come to a compromise ... unless phant0m accuses us of other things in the meantime. Things are not looking too good though so far..

It looks like that post has been moved towards a private section of the forum or maybe has been deleted. A new topic has been posted, it contains more reasonable terms.

@Phant0m

I'll remove your site for now, not because of what was said or written, I'll leave that aside for now and give you a fair chance with your program.

Next update will be at 01:00 am GMT tomorrow.

Kim

Why is www.agnitum.com and agnitum.com blocked? Kinda odd because alot of people here use Outpost and you're blocking it. Hope it was just a mistake and not because of some other reason.

Very strange indeed, I will investigate that because the reason is this:
http://spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic.php?t=2770
CWS New Site Oct 27, 2005

Kim

Thanks Mak.. dunno why they got in but they are out now. Looks like Webhelper may have logged them somewhere and added them to his list update.

I've just tried to follow a link (elsewhere) to boingboing.net and found it's in the HOSTS file.

Seen the site mentioned a few times in the media, just wondered why it's blocked. A wiki search mentions "substantial advertising". Anything else?

Not disputing the decision, just seeking clarification. Thanks.

Hello cww,

OK, what I am missing? You've highlighted advertising. Surely lots of sites have advertising, yet they aren't all blocked by the HOSTS file. So... what am I missing?

As I said, I'm not looking for a fight, just to understand. Thanks.

ok , I had a really quick look at boingboing.net , seems to be mainly using adserver.fmpub.net.. does have quite a lot of external off site links etc but nothing too bad that I could see worth blocking the whole site.. I'll have a more thorough look through their pages tonight.

Thanks, Moore, no prob either way - if you reckon it needs to stay in, so be it.

Hi. Did anyone get time to look at boingboing?

Just been to BreakTheChain.org and it looks pretty useful. When I tried to do a search... yup, search.atomz.com is in my HOSTS file.

At the risk of a being a pain... what's wrong with it? I've tried a google search and couldn't find anything damning.

Cheers

Blocking stat.livejournal.com breaks the Live Journal blog site. Is there a reason for this to be blocked?

Usually stat.**** is blocked because their are statistic server, I'll remove it from now since I found the reason listed on their site:

Thanks for checking on that, Kimberly

Unfortunately, as I discovered today, blocking us.i2.yimg.com breaks Yahoo 360 (Yahoo's blog space).

Ok, removed since it looks that it will break RSS feed too.

I'm from China,and I found that 163.com had been blocked in HOSTS file. www.163.com is the biggest site in China(like Yahoo) ,so please remove this entry from HOSTS.

By the way,
adclient.163.com
adimg.163.com
These are two AD servers of www.163.com.Dont' forget add them!

please remove: www.metro.ca

this is a food retailer in quebec

Hi ncee , I couldnt find in our database. Are you sure it was from our Hosts file ?

Blocking search.atomz.com disables searching at snopes.com. A brief search didn't reveal anything nasty about atomz.com except for some type of affiliation with HitBox. Is this actually a malicious site?

Removed

Hi, Kimberly,

Blocking search.freefind.com interferes with the ability to search some websites. I couldn't find anything negative about freefind.com on Google except for the similarity of name to searchfreefind.com.

Initially I did add the site for the following reason :

Adds a search engine to your website. Available in free sponsor supported version
or ad-free subscription version.

Advertising No advertising will be shown on subscription accounts. For free accounts we get our revenues from ads (sorry!), so there are a few rules concerning advertising:

We reserve the right to display advertising on any or all of the pages which originate from our web server (except on subscription accounts),
Users of our free service may not display their own advertising on any page that originates from our web server (such as the search results page) and
Users of our free service may not remove the ads from any web page which originates from our web server, nor use any such page without displaying the associated advertising (for example, if you have a program that uses the results that we generate, that program must also display the ads).
Note: While your search results and similar pages which originate from our server contain advertising, we do not display advertising on your web site, nor require any type of link back to our site (through we do appreciate it if you put an "Indexed by the FreeFind search engine" link on your site).

It's removed now.

please remove ogrish.com and www.ogrish.com from the list, its not a spam site

It's not in the hosts file as a spam site. If you wish to access it, you'll have to put it on your own exclusions list. It's not a site that suits all public.

Blocking famulus.msnbc.com causes AP and Reuters news links on the My MSN homepage to be non-functional.

graphics.nytimes.com and graphics8.nytimes.com are required for the pages to display properly. I did not see any advertising when I unblocked those URLs.

LIVE365 ?

Very good this HOSTS file but why is Live365 one of internet radio's largest directories listed?
Did not realise the HOSTS file was blocking everything until i could not access any stations or their website for days, took me ages to figure out why.
Is there a good reason why it's in there, all seems harmless to me.
Their ads are a little off putting but most browsers can block them if necessary.

I have manually removed it from my list, but please consider removing it from the master list.

Hi NSG001 , ads.live365.com remains listed , the actual site www.live365.com has been removed from Hosts.. Thanks for the report.

Took out www.163.com , I agree we should block the ads not the whole sites that have ads.

Will look into the graphics.nytimes & msnbc stuff .. thanks Samurai V

i agree please unblock

please remove: us.i1.yimg.com
blocking that site make http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=39494 unbrowseable

ncee,

I'm afraid that you will have to add that site to your exclusions. Many people don't like to see Yahoo ads, especially from those servers.

Thats a tough one , it could be breaking more sites than it is blocking ads , I had a quick look at the widget site and even the yahoo main page has no images showing up.. we'll have to look into it.

Oh I took out the graphics.nytimes already just forgot to post back.

After a closer look, us.i1.yimg.com has been taken out.

Why is indystar.com and www.indystar.com blocked? It seems like a valid website to me.

Will be removed at the next update. Thx for reporting.

www.emusic.com and emusic.com are blocked, but this site is a legitimate, 100% legal online music store (like iTunes). It's possible that before they acquired the domain it was being used for something else, but you can verify that it's currently a legitimate and non-threatening site via the information in the Wikipedia entry (or even a quick Google search). In fact, eMusic is now the second-largest online seller of music on the Internet. I use eMusic all the time and am kind of an eMusic enthusiast, so I wanted to bring this to your attention.

What an excellent program, thank you! I finally got it working (after figuring out the DNS Client/CPU at 99% issue), and everything is running smoothly. I really appreciate all the time that so obviously went into it.

Sincerely - mokulele

Hello mokulele,

I know that they sell music and they also offer 50 free downloads with WinAmp. I'm not going to remove it for the following reasons:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_133850.htm



See also:
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/emusic.html

http://research.sunbelt-software.com/threa...;threatid=15046
Small part of the description page



Kim

Thanks, Kimberly. I appreciate the quick response, and understand your reasoning. Unfortunately, most of the sites that I frequent are included in your hosts list (Netflix being another big one). I know I can exclude sites permanently (great feature), but it seems like too much work at this point. I guess I'll have to look for another alternative. Thank you for your time.. and again, excellent program, despite my issues. -mokulele

Netflix, ... can you be more precise please so that I can look up the issue ?

Hi Kimberly -

netflix.com and www.netflix.com - An online DVD rental site. Ads?

Sorry to take up your time. I've switched to another block list that's fairly small in size. Don't take it personally, I just don't surf the web all that much, so I don't require the most extensive protection (your list is clearly the most comprehensive available).

Thanks again. -mokulele

Netflix

http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php...ost&p=47313

Netflix + Gator
http://www.pcpitstop.com/gator/advertisers.asp

Apart from the fact that netflix is related to Gator's Advertisers, this is the second reason.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/entertainme...free_trial.html
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/entertainme...ix_billing.html
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/entertainme...ix_quality.html

See also:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php...ost&p=47313

Hi Kim!
I've got an "informational" question...
Why is serials.ws blocked?
Mio

and astalavistalab.net?
I just wonna an info

To protect people from being hijacked with crap like this :

http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=10047
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showforum=83

Kim

Hi Kimberly

www.boingboing.net
boingboing.net

need to be remove