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Does using the Steven Black hosts file make ad/tracking blocking browser add-ons more or less unnecessary, since it stops requests to ad/tracking servers at the kernel level?
Reasons I can think of that the answer could be n… Continue reading Does the Steven Black hosts file make ad/tracking blocking browser add-ons unnecessary?
Excerpt from https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/
You might be tempted to work around these limitations by setting up a domain name in the global DNS that happens to resolve to 127.0.0.1 (for instance,… Continue reading Certificates for localhost, MITM Attack
tl;dr: In order to prevent a potential use of our computers to mine crytpocurrencies, I and a few other people were advised to append this: https://github.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/blob/master/hosts.txt to our hosts f… Continue reading What is the point of blocking a potentially malicious domain by binding it in the hosts file to 0.0.0.0 rather than 127.0.0.1?
I have Avira installed with Hosts file protection enabled.
I’ve noticed a pattern where Avira warns me of an attempted modification of the Hosts file (but alas doesn’t tell me which process did the attempt), and soon afterwa… Continue reading Does Windows Update modify Hosts file?
I’m a linux noob, and while looking for a simple OS-level website blocking technique, I came upon the solution of using the linux hosts file like so:
127.0.0.1 websiteiwanttoblock.com
127.0.0.1 anotherone.com
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This is n… Continue reading Is it unsafe to use /etc/hosts file as a website blocker in the following manner?
In this SQLi blog the author says that to bypass a firewall at the server side you should add this line to your /etc/hosts file:
54.165.170.2 www.example.com
But doing so will only block my browser from viewing the webs… Continue reading How can adding a line to your hosts file bypass a server side firewall?
for example, assume I have edited the hosts file with the following line:
127.0.0.1 malicious-site.com
if I happen to have installed a browser developed by people who owns this malicious website.
When I accidentally load … Continue reading Can browser bypass hosts configuration file?
I opened my %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file & I found the following entries there
0.0.0.0 gx7ekbenv2riucmf.onion
0.0.0.0 57g7spgrzlojinas.onion
0.0.0.0 Xxlvbrloxvriy2c5.onion
0.0.0.0 76jdd2ir2embyv47.onion
0.0.0… Continue reading .onion entries in hosts file